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My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a job I loved. I now think guilt is a universal part of being a mother. I used to think it was Jewish-mother guilt but now I think it is working-mother guilt.

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are.

Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.

I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.

Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.