Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.

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

My God, my GodMay there be no endTo the sea, to the sand, The splash of the water, The glow of the sky, The prayer of man

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Every single kid in my group of friends at school was from a single-parent family.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

If you really look, it's not a tax - it's really not a great thing for the wealthy. It's a great thing for the middle class. It's a great thing for companies to expand.

I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.

Stubborness is believing in yourself when nobody else does.