The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.

The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.

I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That's so rare.

If you listen to the Catholic bishops you would think that Catholics are against contraception and legal abortion, but if you ask actual Catholics, you discover that more than 90% of Catholic women use contraception and Catholic women seem to need and choose legal abortion at about the same rate as everybody else. The problem is that the backlash occupies positions of power, not that it represents the majority of people.

Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.