“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.”

“Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.”

“Contrary to widespread beliefs that older populations consume resources that would otherwise go to youth, there is growing reason to think that older people may be just the resource children need.”

“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up….

“Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who walked into your life, said ‘I’m here for you’ and PROVED it.”

“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.”