Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.

Once you are thought selfish, not only are you forgiven a life designed mainly to suit yourself, which in anyone else would appear monstrous, but if an impulse to generosity should by chance overpower you, you will get five times the credit of some poor selfless soul who has been oozing kindness for years.

A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.

We in middle age require adventure.

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world.