Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end.

If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life is pushing strollers up the street, folding T-shirts, the alarm clock going off early and you dropping into bed exhausted every night. That's real life.

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

Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live." Yet of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort...reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung.

The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.