I know that it's very dispiriting for people in their twenties, who expected to graduate from college, get their own apartments, get a job, and move ….

I love having a president who I think is smarter than I am..

I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility..

I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former..

In the same way the Brits had to get used to the idea that the sun had set on the British Empire, I think that there's the subrosa feeling that we ar….

Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet one..

But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on..

I go online all the time, I just don't read about myself. I read a fashion website called Go Fug Yourself. I actually correspond with the Fug Girls a….

Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it..

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around..

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talk….

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society..

The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all the oth….

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are..

Obama doesn't seem like a burger and a beer kind of guy. I have to say, I don't find that problematic at all..

Now, a lot of people are challenged by the fact that a record number of people in their sixties have living parents, and a record number of people in….

Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones..

The reason child care is such a loaded issue is that when we talk about it, we are always tacitly talking about motherhood. And when we're talking ab….

There's some muscle group around your shoulders that seizes up during the perfection dance and doesn't let go until you are asleep, or alone. Or mayb….

The dark aftermath of the frontier, of the vast promise of possibility this country first offered, is an inflated sense of American entitlement today….

If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life is pushing strollers up the street, f….