the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.

Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.

Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.

the more humdrum aspects of life do not make for gripping reading. To render them compelling, a writer must describe the universal in eloquent and evocative prose. Alas, Frey's writing suggests that this was not an option, and he came up with something else.

I am an affirmative action hire.

That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are.

We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.