I think when people keep saying to you, "You're good at this," you just keep doing it.

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

Wow, so much of the way I've transacted my life... so much of the results that I'm happy about are because of what Daddy did.

Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny their children protection so that they could safeguard their own self- image. Or maybe we'll just seem like a bunch of lunatics.

Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and one of the things I like to say is that one of the biggest impediments I had to becoming a successful writer is I had a very happy childhood.

Obama doesn't seem like a burger and a beer kind of guy. I have to say, I don't find that problematic at all.