Through the stories of women I admire, and, above all, through my own experience with my daughters, again and again I encounter moments of extraordinary strength, courage, and resilience, when fears are confronted, even overcome, and anything seems possible.

America being behind France in upward mobility is a little bit like France being behind America in Croissants and Afternoon Sex.

It's important to remember that the future of quality journalism is not dependent on the future of newspapers. The discussion needs to move from "How do we save newspapers?" to "How do we save and strengthen journalism?" - however it is delivered.

Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention.

The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . .