Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.

All that means is that it wasn't personal to you. But it was personal to me.

We weren't meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We weren't meant to have politics, or careers that mattered, or opinions, or lives; we were meant to marry them. If you wanted to be an architect, you married an architect.

American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.

The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.

Suddenly, one day, there was this thing called parenting. Parenting was serious. Parenting was fierce. Parenting was solemn. Parenting was a participle, like going and doing and crusading and worrying.

Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.