When you look at the women that have made a real difference in the world throughout history, what they’ve done has almost always been defined by fearlessness. That’s something I came to at a certain point; I wish I’d come to it younger. Stop looking over your shoulder — there’s nobody who matters back there.

For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings.

I do tend to be almost kind of Pollyanna-ish person.

I learned that if I ever claim sexual harassment, I will be confronted with every bozo I once dated, every women I once impressedas snotty and superior, and together they will provide a convenient excuse to disbelieve me.

People ask me all the time if I'm from a family of writers. The literal short answer is no, but my father and his brothers and sisters and his mother are all people who would sit around with a Tom Collins and tell stories that seemed to get better and better each time they told them.

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.