I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much..

Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked..

Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection and persona….

The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless than that of he….

Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts..

As I said, I had this fabulous college education. At college I met the man to whom I've been married for 34 years and who is the father of those thre….

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it..

I'm not making light of prayers here, but of so-called school prayer, which bears as much resemblance to real spiritual experienceas that freeze-drie….

Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most s….

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous..

That's really what I want in a leader; I want somebody who's really, really smart..

I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and one of the things I like to say is that one of the biggest impediments I had to becoming a successful wr….

People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently..

Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory..

New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it does elsewhere but because over-the….

If you raise an intelligent girl she will become a feminist because of the facts of her own life. Raising feminist boys is more difficult. Raising eg….

I do get a sense that there's a huge disconnect between the political powers and what's really happening, so right-wing conservatives can talk about ….

Socialized medicine, some still cry, but it's long been socialized, with those covered paying for those who are underinsured. American medicine is si….

Keeping kids safe is sometimes a delusion. The world is a perilous place. Sometimes the kitchen is a perilous place..

No one thinks anything silly is suitable when they are an adolescent. Such an enormous share of their own behavior is silly that they lose all proper….

The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved….