There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something s...o soothing and special, too.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was almost two years ago, while awaiting the imminent birth of my second child, that I decided to start working part-time. This... would have been unthinkable to me when I was younger. At twenty-five I should have worn a big red A on my chest; it would have stood for ambition, an ambition so brazen and burning that it would have reduced Hester Prynne's transgression to pale pink.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strengt...h. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is this that, finally, I will try to teach my sons about sex, after I've explained fertile periods and birth control and all th...e other mechanics that are important to understand but never really go to the heart of the matter: I believe I will say that when you sleep with someone you take off a lot more than your clothes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is done in priv...ate by consenting adults.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to Indiana should req...uire a passport.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For most of my adult life, I have been an emotional hit-and- run driver--that is, a reporter. I made people like me, trust me, ope...n their hearts and their minds to me, and cry and bleed on to the pages of my neat little notebooks, and then I went back to a safe place and made a story out of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is hard to find someone who will give your children a feeling of security while it lasts and not wound them too much when it is... finished, who will treat those children as if they were her own, but knows--and never forgets--that they are yours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »