Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like that. It can have that element, but it has to be primarily about the male-female relationship.

I am such a Pacific Northwest girl.

I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.

Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.

The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.

What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are.

Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter.

We women. as glue for the family. lead lives that are important and conflicted. What we women choose to give up for our families is important and valid.