Birthdays are a reward for having shown up 365 days in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance.

We should remind ourselves that laughing together is as close as you can get to another person without touching, and sometimes it represents a closer tie than touching ever could.

Although fear in the right dosage and under the right circumstance protects us ... imaginary fear offers straitjackets instead of lifejackets, nooses instead of safety nets.

I am constantly surprised that the simple word 'feminism' raises more eyebrows and initiates more sad-faced head-shaking than any elaborate stream of invective I have ever leveled at either the I.R.S. or the D.M.V.

My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.

I personally translated the word 'vendetta' as Italian for 'What do you mean, "you want to see other women"?

As a kid, you await holidays with a wide-eyed, passionate, almost maniacal enthusiasm. Heavy breathing is involved.