Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.

If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.

Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.

If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.

It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.

John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

I want to climb up the blank blue dome as a man would storm the inside of a circus tent, wildly, dangling, and with a steel knife claw a rent in the top, peep, and, if I must, fall.

Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.

I'm so bored. I went to the food locker yesterday to visit my meat.

The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.

The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

I do not separate France from Europe.

There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, [so] I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.

The future is the result of what we do right now.

They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!

People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.