There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies.

Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

What the economy requires now is a whole different set of skills: You need intelligence, you need an ability to sit still and focus, to communicate openly to be able to listen to people and to operate in a workplace that is much more fluid than it used to be. Those are things that women do extremely well.

Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.

We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.

On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.

Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.