In my heart, I think a woman has two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.