While liberals had embraced Obama as someone who had left-wing progressive ideas, the truth is that by personality he's a very incremental guy.

My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books.

The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.

Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.

Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.

If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.

I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better place for me.