Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.

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.

As people do a task, they improve at it.

Fear uncovers the impossible, while faith uncovers the possible.

Socialism and Communism have failed, but now Capitalism is failing us.

Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.

I could have melted ice, my smile was so bright.

Why should he who is scared be careful?

The next time you're mad at me, talk to me,' he said. 'Don't shut me out. I don't like playing games. And by the way, I had a great time, too.

My feeling is, well, if it's my money, I have a right to judge.

That I'm an alcoholic is completely ridiculous.

I prefer to work alone – except in the bedroom. (Steele)

Every day one has to earn the name of 'writer' over again, with much wrestling.