You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod.
It is difficult for me to imagine the same dedication to women’s rights on the part of the kind of man who lives in partnership with someone he likes and respects, and the kind of man who considers breast-augmentation surgery self-improvement.
Today is the only guarantee you get.
This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow older.
I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.
Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.
Poor kids are much more likely to become sick than their richer counterparts, but much less likely to have health insurance. Talk about a double whammy.
There’s no greater happiness than doing something every day that you love, that you feel you do in a satisfactory fashion, and which both supports and gives you time to support your family. I felt so lucky to have all that.
Hospitals are a little like the beach. The next wave comes in, and the footprints of your pain and suffering, your delivery and recovery, are obliterated...
A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn’t believe how cheaply I can do a kitchen renovation.
I’ve been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better place for me.
Testosterone does not have to be toxic.
When I’m falling, my girlfriends are my soft landing.
I don’t do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I’ve had the opportunity to get to know both social workers and TV talk-show hosts.
I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.
The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u.
It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn’t see coming and may have wandered down by mistake. The older we get the more willing we are to follow those, to surprise ourselves.
Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
A writer is always working with whatever she’s managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.
Ask any woman how she makes it through the day, and she may mention her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But if you push her on how she really makes it through her day, she will mention her girlfriends.