What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, a complete and total willingness to pour their hearts out to me, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone.

However, there will be a Republican Party platform that will coalesce around their convention. Unless I miss my guess, it will be considerably more conservative on these issues, perhaps even than Governor Romney is, and I think that that will give Americans a clear set of choices about all issues, but about women's issues too.

When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of the book.

Testosterone does not have to be toxic.

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.

Wow, so much of the way I've transacted my life... so much of the results that I'm happy about are because of what Daddy did.

If I waited long enough and said, "Okay, so what you're saying is you liked your life a lot better when you were 30?" everybody would get real quiet and then admit that that wasn't the case, that they really felt like they were sort of growing into themselves in a way.