There’s no love more intense than the love we have for our kids-and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.
Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.
I have one piece of advice for you: sleep your way to the top.
Increasingly, staying in the middle class – let alone aspiring to become middle class – is becoming a game of chance.
It’s no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.
Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred – it is the amphetamine of its believers.
Having a partner definitely allows you to take more risks.
Making money and doing good in the world are not mutually exclusive.
America is a country ready to be taken-in fact, longing to be taken-by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
It’s important to remember that the future of quality journalism is not dependent on the future of newspapers. The discussion needs to move from “How do we save newspapers?” to “How do we save and strengthen journalism?” – however it is delivered.
I think especially as women we nned to recognize that feeling pressure is completely selfimposed.
Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband.
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.
As the newspaper industry continues to contract, one of the most commonly voiced fears is that serious investigative journalism will be among the victims of the scaleback. And, indeed, many newspapers are drastically reducing their investigative teams.
Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?
We forget we’re mostly water till the rain falls and every atom in our body starts to go home.
When we really connect to that place of wisdom and strength and understanding, everything becomes easier.
Life is shaped from the inside out.
Given the multiple crises we are living through, investigative journalism is all the more important.