Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.

Joy acts like a trampoline, everything that touches it bouncing right back off it.

Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.

As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.

It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.

Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them.

I wasn't allowed to be clever when I was young and blonde, but now I am 50 and an old blonde, I am allowed to have gravitas. With wrinkles comes wisdom.