Alexandra: "Sometimes I think nothing I do ever suits you. Don't I ever do anything right?" (To her critical, southern husband)
Meagan: "I can't believe you married a senator. You have two beautiful children. You live in such a wonderful house."
Alexandra: "You know what I remember is not so much what happened, it's more, it's like the color of things, not the things themselves. Till now."
Alexandra: "You know, when Emily was about three months old, she looked at me, I mean really looked at me. And I realized that even though she came from my body, she wasn't a part of me. I saw her separateness. There was somebody inside this tiny little infant. It completely changed the way I thought about raising children."
Alexandra: "It reminds me of a kaleidoscope I gave Mary-Louise, last year for her birthday. You turn it a fraction and the same pieces fall into completely different patterns. One moment they're flowers, the next they're demons breathing fire."
Alexandra: "My wonderful house is more like a shrine to Henry's parents. He was born there. In the fourteen years I've lived there, he hasn't even allowed me to change a lamp shade. Don't get me started on all that."
Meagan: "How so?"
Alexandra: "From the beginning, we are who we are. Hopefully we have parents who can help us get better at it."
