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

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.

Women are damn resilient.

I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.

The whole issue of how women's management styles are viewed is an incredibly interesting subject.

People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.

When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything.