“What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks, and public works.”

“Your absence has gone through me…Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.”

“Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.”

“As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded with December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.”

“Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.”

“Caregiving arrangements are a Rubik’s cube for every family.”