Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.
People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
