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

Choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work..

A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn't believe how cheaply I can do a kitchen renovation..

If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of free time, the deity would surely be bemus….

My father really, really pushed me to excel in a way that I resented for years and then realized had really worked for me..

You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. ….

I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defe….

My most pronounced writing habit is trying not to write..

These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as we go about the business of thinking….

Ask any woman how she makes it through the day, and she may mention her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But if you push her on how she rea….

Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring ….

There are a million moving parts to raising kids, and you can't always anticipate them all, especially when they are teenagers and their peers play s….

Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. It is a whisper in the world and a clamor within. More than sex, more than fait….

The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have..

I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's fear that accounts for racism, ….

I think anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when tor….

That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are..

Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never, ever be permitted aro….

We almost manage to forget that things happen that we don't anticipate..

Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearin….

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone num….