When a man is attacked in print, it's usually for saying what he says; when a woman is attacked in print, it's often for being who she is.

The problem is huge. We've just added seventy-five million people to the already large proportion of people in the world who are malnourished all the time, whose bodies are being starved.

If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.

She wasn't ready to settle down, she told her friends. That was one way of putting it. Another was would have been that she had not found anyone to settle down with. There had been several men in her life, but they hadn't been convincing. They'd been somewhat like her table - quickly acquired, brightened up a little, but temporary. The time for that kind of thing was running out, however. She was tired of renting.

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!

I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.