I was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in the near future.

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write, and there are very few of them.

Women are the glue that holds our day-to-day world together.

The Cairo conferenceis about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care. It is also about whether governments will follow where women have so clearly led them, toward safe, simple and reliable choices in family planning. While Cairo crackles with conflict, in the homes of the world the orthodoxies have been duly heard, and roundly ignored.

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

The difference between government and leadership is that leadership has a soul.

I really feel like if you can get past your fear, if you can say, "Uh-uh, I'm afraid to do that and I'm going to do it anyhow," that that's really the way to have a satisfying life moving forward. I think I had that kind of fearlessness even as a young person. It wasn't tempered by experience or wisdom, but it took me a long way.