I'm looking for a balance of reported and essayistic work by up-and-coming women journalists. Often that means combing online-only sources or alt weeklies.

I don't have to work extra hard, but that's because there are a lot of women in my professional network and I have hired a lot of women as full-time writers and part-time columnists.

By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions.

He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.

Because everyone is doing it doesn't make it right and because you stand out doesn't make it wrong. Just find a path that you can defend.

The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.

I take a lot of pitches. Some guys hate to do that.

There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.

I think the Indian model of respecting the uniqueness of each religion and, of every state is what makes the country great.

My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.

It's very rare that I play cool people. I'm not sure what that says about me.

Jared told her he used to be an exotic dancer in San Francisco.' 'My body is a gift from God,' Jared said gravely. 'Except for my hips, which are clearly a gift from the devil.