You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

The reason child care is such a loaded issue is that when we talk about it, we are always tacitly talking about motherhood. And when we're talking about motherhood we're always tacitly assuming that child care must be a very dim second to full-time mother care.

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

Guilt is what separates humans from animals.

Sometimes we don't see out of our peripheral vision what's coming right around the corner.