She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more..

This was how the modern working girl behaved. She didn’t hide her femininity or apologize for it, as they did in the old days. She flaunted it and, h….

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. ….

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga..

For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymo….

Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who ….

When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajam….

Timing was everything when it came to being a woman—the moment you entered the world could seal your fate..

If things had been different, she would be in Carolyn's place right now. She didn't want that sort of existence, but there was something so attractiv….

In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they ac….

You all seem to think that you should marry someone when you feel this intense emotion, which you call love. And then you expect that the love will f….

Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like m….

A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want to be reminded by anyone, child or oth….

When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she’d give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign specie….

Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new..

We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway..

I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One..

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind..

She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickl….

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking..

There were so many ways to be twenty-six years old..