But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.

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

I was a kid who sometimes got in trouble because I couldn't keep my mouth shut, which turned out to be an advantage when I became an opinion columnist.

In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.

The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into the writing. That's how life is most of the time, isn't it? You know where you are and where you hope to wind up. It's the getting there that's challenging.