What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

In the biotech revolution, it is the human body, not iron or steel or plastic, that's at the source. Are the biocapitalists going to be allowed to dig without consent into our genetic codes, then market them?

Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.

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

It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments, like snapshots, in the fleeting video of time.

If there's a single message passed down from each generation of American parents to their children, it is a two-word line: Better Yourself. And if there's a temple of self-betterment in each town, it is the local school. We have worshipped there for some time.