It is difficult for me to imagine the same dedication to women's rights on the part of the kind of man who lives in partnership with someone he likes….

knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us..

What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to fini….

Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to ….

And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that..

The best thing about Sassy Seats is that grandmothers cannot figure out how they work and are in constant fear of the child's falling. This often mak….

The gender gap looks at this point like it's going to favor the president, particularly among white suburban women. I certainly think it's going to b….

Jail sentences have many functions, but one is surely to send a message about what our society abhors and what it values. This week, the equation was….

So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness..

My mother was an incredibly loving mother..

Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first..

Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really hard,….

I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. ….

Today is the only guarantee you get..

Your hair isn't quite right and maybe you're a size bigger than you should be and on and on and on. I think there comes a moment when you've matured ….

And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were..

What had I expected of the first child? Everything. Rocket scientist. Neurosurgeon. Designated hitter. We talked wisely at cocktail parties about the….

An election marks the end of the affair; it puts paid to the seduction of the many by the few. Pretty words, fulsome promises. We wind up married, bu….

We are writers. We danced with words, as children, in what became familiar patterns. The words became our friends and our companions, and without eve….

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home..

The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life..