If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.

In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.

Men have to ask, 'How can I combine career and family?'

A portable friend to all readers-especia lly but not only women-who need to learn that the Golden Rule works only if it's reversible: We must learn to treat ourselves as well as we wish to treat others.

As a profession, freelance writing is notoriously insecure. That's the first argument in its favor. For many reasons, a few of them rational, the thought of knowing exactly what next year's accomplishments, routine, income, and vacation will be - or even what time I have to get up tomorrow morning - has always depressed me.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.