Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today.

I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I add. I subtract. I work and fiddle and keep working and fiddling, and I only stop at the deadline.

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

instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions.

It is not that fathers are better or worse, not that they are more loved or criticized, but rather that they are viewed with far less intensity. There is no Philip Roth or Woody Allen or Nancy Friday who writes about fathers with a runaway excess of humor, horror ... feeling. Most of us let our fathers off the hook.

Welfare is ... the victim of national compassion fatigue.

Pro-choice supporters are often heard using the cool language of the courts and the vocabulary of rights. Americans who are deeply ambivalent about abortion often miss the sound of caring.