Work-family conflicts - the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child - would not be forced upon women with such sanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.

Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

We can remind the world that all the dead on both sides have not settled our differences, so now it is time for the living to renounce violence as a means of solving this conflict.

The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than the commune, kibbutz, or classroom, it seems to individualize and socialize its children, to make us feel at the same time unique and yet joined to all humanity, accepted as is and yet challenged to grow, loved unconditionally and yet propelled by greater expectations. Only in the family can so many extremes be reconciled and synthesized. Only in the family do we have a lifetime in which to do it.

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

What I often say to people who are quick to say I’m not a feminist is if you think you’re not a feminist, give it all back.