we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients.

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

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

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.

In today's amphetamine world of news junkies, speed trumps thoughtfulness too often.

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