I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

It's an odd kind of feeling because it sort of reminds me of being five again. When you're a five-year-old, you don't pay any attention to what anyone thinks of you. You just sort of are in your skin.

It is this that, finally, I will try to teach my sons about sex, after I've explained fertile periods and birth control and all the other mechanics that are important to understand but never really go to the heart of the matter: I believe I will say that when you sleep with someone you take off a lot more than your clothes.

Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory.

If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.

However, there will be a Republican Party platform that will coalesce around their convention. Unless I miss my guess, it will be considerably more conservative on these issues, perhaps even than Governor Romney is, and I think that that will give Americans a clear set of choices about all issues, but about women's issues too.

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