I sort of feel like it comes around again. That when you get to a certain age, when you've lived enough and you've got your friends to support you and your family to support you, you wake up one morning and think, yeah, I'm okay.

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

Today is the only guarantee you get.

I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former.

Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live." Yet of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort...reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung.

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.

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.