Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.

We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.

In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

Pop culture is like our subconscious.

If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.

As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.

Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

Passion drove her deeper, into the abyss beneath his skin where she mapped his soul to the dance of his heartbeat...

What good were special talents when there was no one to share them with?

We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.

It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.

Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

The reality is that we do not wash our own laundry - it just gets dirtier.

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

Unfortunately, most news writing is the product of a first draft culture.

Flow wine, smile woman, and the universe is consoled.

Art is there for nourishment, not explication.