Once in a while you have to bite the hand that reads you.

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

I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions

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

Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in

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.

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.