If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.

I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain, and lifelong, grinding poverty show us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we’ve made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.

The unwearable of high heels is self-evidently all around us, coming to a head at the average wedding reception, a uniformly high-heeled occasion. In our minds, we see it as a serene and elegant gathering of women in their finest, one of the big chances of the year to pretend you're at the Oscars, in your stilettos. In actuality of course, ... there are women staggering around in the unaccustomed vertical, foot-flesh spilling over tight, unkind satin.

I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.

The world is difficult and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.

You don't need to be legendary all the time. You can just be legendary for 10 minutes a day.