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.

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.

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.

People are not dumb. They feel if you want rather to lead them than to love them.

In those few words you've summed up my life - my reason for existence. It's you. Any pain I've suffered, the mistakes I've made, the path laid out for me have all led here - to you.

Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.

Since the beginning of time, women have had to fight for what they deserve. I'm proud to be a part of a wave of strong women on TV!

An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.

A stronger middle class is not the consequence of economic growth. A stronger middle class is the cause of economic growth.

Your life will be what you create it as, and no one will stand in judgment of it, now or ever.

Why does not the brain adapt to repeated exposure and become indifferent, instead of satisfied?