When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts....But if success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your soul, it is not success at all.

I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility.

[In the aftermath of death] Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous.

Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids and their elders' cold unconcern toward others. Maybe the homeless are not the only ones who need to spend time in these places to thaw out.

When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.