It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

Clinton had absolutely zero honeymoon, none whatsoever.

I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bonus, not a requirement, for men in the same position.

Yes, Bill Clinton is a big flirt.

Women have to be the biggest champions in the world of other women's choices.

Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!'

To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game and do it by watching first some high-school or small-town teams

The beauty of life lies in being courageous enough to display your true identify in the public light.

This one is for our crew, but it’s also for all the weird girls and word nerds, for all the in-the-middle wickeds and queers and misfits and hell-raisers.

Maybe I'm the moon. Cold, remote, and yet men still want to conquer me.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.

One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.

Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

Even though me and Paul Ryan disagree on a whole lot of things, when he stood up and confronted those ugly words that [Donald] Trump said, I was proud of him.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.