In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.

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

If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.

Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.

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.

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

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.