Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son's third grade teacher refers to as a "teachable moment.

Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet one.

All the things we don’t say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble.

Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement.

Ask any woman how she makes it through the day, and she may mention her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But if you push her on how she really makes it through her day, she will mention her girlfriends.

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.

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.