Forty Is ... An Age At Which

The Central Struggle Of Parenthood Is To Let Our Hopes For Our Children Outweigh Our Fears.

All In All, I Am Not Surprised That The People Who Want To Unravel The Social Contract Start With Young Adults. Those Who Are Urged To Feel Afraid, Very Afraid, Have Both The Greatest Sense Of Independence And The Most Finely Honed Skepticism About Government.

She Goes In With A Prejudice And Comes Out With A Statistic.

You Can Teach Someone Who Cares To Write Columns, But You Can’t Teach Someone Who Writes Columns To Care.

Who's Counting? It Was, Of Course, The Minority Who Were Counting. It Always Is. Most Of The Women I Know Today Would Dearly Like To Use Their Fingers And Toes For Some Activity More Enthralling Than Counting. They Have Been Counting For So Long. But The Peculiar Problem Of The New Math Is That Every Time We Stop Adding, Somebody Starts Subtracting. At The Very Least (the Advanced Students Will Understand This) The Rate Of Increase Slows. ... The Minority Members Of Any Group Or Profession Have Two Answers: They Can Keep Score Or They Can Lose.