This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.

I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better place for me.

If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.

It is so easy to exist instead of live.

All things being equal, I would choose a woman over a man in order to even the balance of power, to insinuate a different perspective into the process, to give young women something to shoot for and someone to look up to. But all things are rarely equal.

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

No one thinks anything silly is suitable when they are an adolescent. Such an enormous share of their own behavior is silly that they lose all proper perspective on silliness, like a baker who is nauseated by the sight of his own eclairs. This provides another good argument for the emerging theory that the best use of cryogenics is to freeze all human beings when they are between the ages of twelve and nineteen.