Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.

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.

Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.

Seize the day...by the throat!

Turn around, Piglet. Step lightly, Pooh. This silly ol' dance is perfect for two.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

It is an apple full of worms compared to an apple that's fresh and delicious.

There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.

Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.

I always knew I had something special.

Peeta" I said "Stay with me" I heard him say one word before the drigs pulled me under, I realised later that what he said was 'always

I'm too sensitive. I could not show up to a murder scene and do anything like that. It would break me instantly.