To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.

In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

Pop culture is like our subconscious.

If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.

As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.

Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

I have always loved Elle. I love her now even more deeply than before, as the woman I wish to share my life with."~Sean O'Neill

Poor motivation and alertness cause complacency

Our vision is often more abstracted by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

I guess we'll just sit around here and casually die, then.

Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.

Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.

If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.

There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application. Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not consistent with what it takes to run a company.

To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.

If you need to bring in a business partner, make sure your partner brings along some money.