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As a child, I remember I always wanted to make my parents happy and give them everything in their lives.

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.

As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted to find a way to make the world a more kind, compassionate place.

Like most parents, I think, my children have been the source of some of my most intense joys and despairs, my deepest moral dilemmas and greatest moral achievements.