Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.

The reason child care is such a loaded issue is that when we talk about it, we are always tacitly talking about motherhood. And when we're talking about motherhood we're always tacitly assuming that child care must be a very dim second to full-time mother care.

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.

Barack Obama presents as kind of a cool character, and I think that that's his natural personality.

high fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later.

I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.

I don't understand how people learn to live in the world if they haven't had siblings. Everything I learned about negotiation, territoriality, coexistence, dislike, inbred differences and love despite knowledge I learned from my four younger siblings.