Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.

There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.

It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.

I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.

What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.

Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.