Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me.

I really feel like I'm a liberal because I'm a Catholic, because I took the words of the New Testament to heart.

Look at the view and you'll never be disappointed.

Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won’t happen. We have to teach ourselves how to make room for them, to love them, and to live, really live.

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?