It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn't see coming and may have wandered down by mistake. The older we get the more willing we are to follow those, to surprise ourselves.

A finished person is a boring person.

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.

Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific andtorturous, involving and utterly tedious, all at the same time. The world is full of women made to feel strange because what everyone assumes comes naturally is so difficult to do--never mind to do well.

My mother was an incredibly loving mother.