For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.

There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming "more than," or at least not becoming "less than," instead of becoming "part of."

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers.

We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.