You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as "Words With Friends" and "Doom."

Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.

Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.

This is America, and we don't restrict our battles over people's sex lives to 11 months a year

Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.

My only thought about Margaret Thatcher is the same one I had about Ronald Reagan. I hated a lot of what they did, but once in a while a country just needs a change.