You can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right.

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

We have become a nation of Kodachrome, Nikon, Instamatic addicts. But we haven't yet developed a clear idea of the ethics of picture-taking. ... Where do we get the right to bring other people home in a canister? Where did we lose the right to control our image?

We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there?