I read once, which I loved so much, that this great physicist who won a Nobel Prize said that every day when he got home, his dad asked him not what he learned in school but his dad said, 'Did you ask any great questions today?' And I always thought, what a beautiful way to educate kids that we're excited by their questions, not by our answers and whether they can repeat our answers.

I love cabdrivers. I love their unpredictable manners. I love the pictures of their families on the visors. I love the fact that most of them think I'm Martha Stewart.

People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.

Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.