America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

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

And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, and the rest could go.

The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.

When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life.

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.

Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.