As people do a task, they improve at it.

Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.

The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.

For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.

Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

All's fair in love and purchasing.

I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.

There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

In short, humans are programmed to get bored.

Talking to women about birth can be polarizing.

Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.

The Book of Life was created as a tool for humans to use to grow in wisdom, knowledge, and power.

Those who don't understand their personal legends will fail to comprehend its teachings.

…Elinor was then at liberty to think and be wretched.

The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other.

It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.

I like Steve Bannon. He is a good man. He is not a racist - I can tell you that. He's a good person, and I think the press treats him frankly very unfairly.

I don't like the fact that I have to get older so fast, but I like the fact that I'm aging so well.

My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.