People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

The great myth of our work-intense era is 'quality time.' We believe we can make up for the loss of days or hours, especially with each other, by concentrated minutes. But ultimately there is no way to do one-minute mothering. There is no way to pay attention in a hurry.

The truth is that we can overhaul our surroundings, renovate our environment, talk a new game, join a new club, far more easily than we can change the way we respond emotionally. It is easier to change behavior than feelings about that behavior.

We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned.

Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice of clothing.