Women are the glue that holds our day-to-day world together.

You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod.

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.

Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.

My sister is a public school teacher. She makes far far less money than I do, and gets almost no public attention for her work. Yet I believe what she does is infinitely more important and more difficult than what I do.

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

an the president bring out the voters who were so enthusiastic about him in 2008 and seem a little disenchanted now? Can he bring out young people? Can he bring out Latinos? Can he bring out those white suburban moms?