I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.

I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.

They want to play at being mothers. So let them. Expressing tenderness in their own way will not prevent girls from enjoying a successful career in the future; indeed, the ability to nurture is as valuable a skill in the workplace as the ability to lead.

We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.