I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls it my cerebral palsy mouth. I am very much a daddy's girl, and even though I would rather my smile wa...
Soon, he said in his letter. They said soon to each other often, and soon gave their plan the weight of something real.
A father is as much a verb as a mother.
There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.
In a healthy relationship, it is the role of whoever can provide to provide.
To call him humble was to make rudeness normal. Besides, humility had always seemed to him a specious thing, invented for the comfort of others; you were praised for humility by people because you did...
She had, finally, spun herself fully into being.
She had come to understand that American parenting was a juggling of anxieties, and that it came with having too much food: a sated belly gave Americans time to worry that their child might have a rar...
When you want to join a prestigious social club, do you wonder if your race will make it difficult to join? If you do well in a situation, do you expect to be called a credit to your race? Or to be de...
There are people who say, 'Well, your name is also about patriarchy because it is your father's name.' Indeed. But the point is simply this: whether it came from my father or from the moon, it is the...
Greatness depends on where you are coming from.
The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership.
To take charity for granted, to revel in this charity towards people whom one did not know - perhaps it came from having had yesterday and having today and expecting to have tomorrow. She envied them...
It had to be that Americans were taught, from elementary school, to always say something in class, no matter what. [...] They never said I don't know. They said, instead, I'm not sure, which did not g...
This was love, to be eager for tomorrow.
Culture does not make people. People make culture.
I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.
She always chose peace over truth,
The higher you go, the fewer women there are.
Alexa and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the...