You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

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

To know the world, know yourself.

Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.

Sometimes it's good to let people swim in ocean of ignorance and let them struggle to the shores of enlightenment.

I didn't care whether I had gotten dressed, or what state my hair was in or anything– it didn't matter. I felt close to him, and I'd come to regard him as just another part of the scenery.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.

Let's just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it.

I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house.

Everyone shines, given the right lighting.

Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good!