You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.

There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.

The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.

When you consider America, there are hundreds of millions of people who have smoked marijuana illegally.

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I now value as serenity.

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.