The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.

Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

Hollywood is in somewhat the same position as Las Vegas these days. It went from being the capital of sin to Disneyland, and now it's landed somewhere in between. It tries to keep the sins hidden away and outwardly present itself as a defender of American virtues: justice, individual freedom, and the power of one innocent soul to save the world.

Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.

What I've found is that there is an enormous shift taking place in our society. Suddenly there are all young women who are better educated and earning more money than men their age. When young couples today decide to marry, they have very different expectations of one another than their parents did. And there's even been change at the very top of the career ladder. People tend to underestimate that.

Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.