Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything?

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim 'She looked ten years younger,' or do we want them to say 'She lived a great life'?

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one hundred men because of a decision handed down by a court comprised of nine men--on an issue that affects millions of women.... I have the feeling that if men could get pregnant, we wouldn't be struggling for this legislation. If men could get pregnant, maternity benefits would be as sacrosanct as the G.I. Bill.