I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even….

I really hate alcohol. I hate it because it's linked so closely to sexual assault in our culture..

I love the novel of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful novel. I love the movie of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profo….

I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to understanding that the war on drug….

My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence..

I am an adamant feminist. It never occurred to me to take my husband's name when we married. I am a supporter of abortion rights, of equal pay for eq….

When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different, I was used to it now, but with ev….

If producing a regular column is living out loud, then keeping a daily blog is living at the top of your lungs. For a couple of months there, I was s….

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms..

I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about ….

I am a very nonspiritual person..

There is no fundamental truth and there's nothing to be connected to: I just believe that [LSD] makes you feel better..

Nothing makes me roll my eyes faster than a "Coexist" bumper sticker..

That connection between hormones and mood is so important to get a handle on, and it's also really important when you're considering taking medicatio….

Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cogn….

Those of us whose parenting style can be described as "a series of reflexes, instincts, and minute-by-minute adjustments," as Julie of A Little Pregn….

So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the hus….

It's incredibly important to me that my children don't put anything in their bodies that they haven't tested first - that's how you end up dying..

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement..

I mean, I do actually think there is a qualitative difference between aborting in the early part of the first trimester and in, you know, the middle ….

I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It wi….