The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.

Poor kids are much more likely to become sick than their richer counterparts, but much less likely to have health insurance. Talk about a double whammy.

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.

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.

I'll tell you the truth - I went to a women's college, Barnard, the most selective college for women in America today. If there's one thing I came out of Barnard with, because it was a women's college and a great institution of higher education, it was fearlessness.

If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.