What's interesting about the Taliban, is they're more afraid of educating girls than they are of drones. One educated girl is more scary to the Taliban than a drone.

I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment

Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have 'the responsibility gene.' No one has that gene more markedly than his wife.

I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.