Part of the great wonder of reading is that it has the ability to make human beings feel more connected to one another, which is a great good, if not… - Anna Quindlen

My doctor says that, contrary to conventional wisdom, she doesn't believe our memories flag because of a drop in estrogen but because of how crowded it in the drawers of our minds.

Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we’re as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the Madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure.