Well, we tell our kids things like 'don't gossip' and then an hour later they hear us on the phone. Stuff like that.

I love having a president who I think is smarter than I am.

I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.

I think there was a long period of time when we got real invested in a youth culture, and not coincidentally it was when the baby boomers, who let's face it, take up a lot of space on the planet, were young.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

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