There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.

The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.

For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.

Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

All's fair in love and purchasing.

I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.

In short, humans are programmed to get bored.

Talking to women about birth can be polarizing.

As people do a task, they improve at it.

Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

When you do something, you miss something else! If you don’t want to miss anything, you have to do everything!

All our loves are contained in all our other loves.

I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.

nobody ever dies of an indignity.

People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.

Gamblers spend 10 percent less on food; 25 percent less on clothing and 35 percent less on savings

Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.

Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

Why does she have wings?' So she can fly.