The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

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.

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.

Wisdom and understanding is the power to bring light to darkness

Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom.

I'm fine, I am just going to go over here and puke shards of my own pelvis into this bush.

I've approached so many things in my life with such intensity that I want to approach motherhood with dedication and focus.

I never meant to be but a dreamer.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.

If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and one-liners and stuff.

Love is very much perceived as "I couldn't control myself; it's love." But you can. Everything you do in response is a choice.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes.