The Central Paradox Of Motherhood Is That

Maybe This Year, We Ought To Walk Through The Rooms Of Our Lives Not Looking For Flaws, But Looking For Potential.

Today Washington Is Our Hollywood, The Senate Our Warner Bros., The White House Our Beverly Hills. People Who Never Read A Line Of A Movie Magazine Deal With The Lives Of Leaders As If They Were Elizabeth Taylor And Richard Burton.

I Rewrite A Great Deal. I'm Always Fiddling, Always Changing Something. I'll Write A Few Words - Then I'll Change Them. I Add. I Subtract. I Work And Fiddle And Keep Working And Fiddling, And I Only Stop At The Deadline.

Women Have Gained Access To The Institutions, But Not Enough Power To Overhaul Them.

I Am A Member Of A Small, Nearly Extinct Minority Group, A Kind Of Urban Lost Tribe Who Insist, In The Face Of All Evidence To The Contrary, On The Sanctity Of Being On Time. Which Is To Say That We On-timers Are Compulsively, Unfashionably Prompt, That There Are Only Handfuls Of Us In Any Given City And, Unfortunately, We Never Seem To Have Appointments With Each Other.