Listen to me. " He grabbed my arms, holding me there. " I couldn't find you. And I will never forgive myself for that. Ever.
Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
What the economy requires now is a whole different set of skills: You need intelligence, you need an ability to sit still and focus, to communicate openly to be able to listen to people and to operate in a workplace that is much more fluid than it used to be. Those are things that women do extremely well.
In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.
Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.
Marriages are failing, and mothers are raising their children alone. Many women would rather remain alone than marry a man who can't contribute anything to the family's income.
I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big!
The suggestion that the prime minister had been flirting with one of the senior women cabinet ministers made me laugh every time I saw it, and I thought, "if you only knew!" Perhaps they should have pushed it a bit harder.
The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.