It's not the nineteenth century; I'm not meant to be judged on how good a housekeeper I am. Getting down on the floor with a lemon and a bucket of vinegar does not make me a better person.

American culture at large has failed working mothers.

Her conclusion: "You just have to follow your own heart" when it comes to medical decision-making.

If you're not at least a tiny bit jealous at this point, you might want to check for your own pulse.

[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what we’ve stopped trying to do on a society-wide one.

It doesn't hurt to get more education.

Nowadays, our lifestyle is to follow the herd than to use the head.

My husband managed to cram four years of college into five.

I'm just steadily building myself up as Kelly Rowland, not just Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child, which is a blessing to be able to do that.

Never index your own book.

America has to stand up and decide if we want to be a socialist nation or if we're going to be a free nation.

I think when you start messing with your own hormones, it's crazy-making.

And if the big dog ain't me, then the house won't get guarded - period.

Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique.

Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.