The gender gap looks at this point like it's going to favor the president, particularly among white suburban women. I certainly think it's going to be an issue. But I think the single most important thing in this election will be turnout.

high fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later.

We almost manage to forget that things happen that we don't anticipate.

An election marks the end of the affair; it puts paid to the seduction of the many by the few. Pretty words, fulsome promises. We wind up married, but to whom, to what? We cannot always predict with certainty the future leader from the winning candidate. Some men grow in the job; others are diminished by its demands and its grandeur.

Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.

Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.