This toxic striving for perfection is a female thing. How many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is good enough.

It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.

A big mirror to exercise in front of is essential.

I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process.

I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft carrier [actually, it was in an anti-aircraft gun emplacement, not a carrier], which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes. [Actually, that was her intention in posing for the photograph the way she did.] It hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless.

Men fear that becoming 'we' will erase his 'I.' For women, our 'we' is our saving grace Women's relationships are like a renewable source of power.

Magazines, books, novels, TV, internet, movies - all of those things is what creates our consciousness.