high fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later..

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough..

It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit..

You just can't tell or calibrate motive or intelligence or sense. So I don't read anything unless someone tells me that it's really smart or illumina….

Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny their children protection so that th….

We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American..

We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success..

I think a lot of people, but particularly a lot of women, get to this stage when I'd say they're over 50. We face a lot of hard judgment from the wor….

February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months henc….

The Cairo conferenceis about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care. It is also about wh….

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I….

I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives..

One of the things that got me on this topic for this book was that when I was researching the column I wrote in 2009 saying that I was stepping down ….

And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, an….

Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed….

I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box..

Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house..

Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids and their elders' co….

Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained..

The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the ….

Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed ev….