Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

None of the candidates are ever perfect, ok? Then you have to get them in there and you have to hold them accountable. You have to make noises.

If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.

I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.