The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isnt true.

What's next for me? I don't know. So I'm in exactly the same boat as many of you.

I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.

You know the sting of losing or not getting something you badly want. When that happens show what you are made of.

Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more.

Over the years, I’ve worried that my directness could come off as brusque or my criticisms heard in an outsize way, especially by male colleagues. I sometimes wondered whether expressing even my mildest reservation reminded someone of a chastising mother or complaining wife.

You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you're in faster than you can think of.