Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people I might never meet.

I know that it's very dispiriting for people in their twenties, who expected to graduate from college, get their own apartments, get a job, and move forward with their lives, and in fact are still now living with Mom and Dad, which is challenging for all involved.

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?

We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.

I think when people keep saying to you, "You're good at this," you just keep doing it.

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.

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