Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our...

I am actually a bit chubby, and I eat everything. I eat in a way - if my parents fed me the way I choose to eat as an adult, they would've lost custody.

Those women with collagen lips just look like frogs - 'muffin mouths,' I call them. There's not a line on their brows, and all the emotion gone from their faces, like all those actresses in 'Desperate...

As I listened to the verdicts in the Casey Anthony case, acquitting her of the homicide of her baby girl, I relived what I felt back when court clerk Deirdre Robertson read the verdicts in the Simpson...

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

"My father said Don't grow up to be a woman and what he meant by that was a housewife ... without any interests."

Everything breaks down but desire. And because we are old, doctors try to shame that out of us. Young punks! Lose one's youth, and doctors take it as axiomatic that you've lost your mind, your balls.

How shall a society remember its miners underground while it cannot even remember its homeless above ground?

I have been looking at the marriage service in the Prayer-book, and it seems to me very humiliating that a giver-away should be required at all. According to the ceremony as they printed, my...

Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

... she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see ...

Clearly, it is time we learned to meet our emotional needs without embracing the preposterous. We must find ways to invoke the power of ritual and to mark those transitions in every human life that...

And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to believing in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions.

"We're a dramatic people," Perry Mason said slowly. "We're not like the English. The English want dignity and order. We want the dramatic and the spectacular. It's a national craving. We're geared to...

I'm just tired and I can't sleep yet. A woman's work is never done, isn't that what the fools say?

She said it seemed like the only choices offered were to want to be what other people were, or to be what other people wanted you to be.

Youth is a deception - a deception of the press and textbooks. The best time of life! {...} Youth is the most difficult time of existence.

I will not try to describe the beauty of life in a Swarm ‒ their zero-gravity globe cities and comet farms and thrust clusters, their micro-orbital forests and migrating rivers and the ten thousand...

I don't trust her more than I can run full-steam in a corset.

But then this is how it is for women everywhere. You experience one lapse in conscience, in how low you think you'll go, in what you'll accept, and pretty soon you're at the bottom

women never learn to dispense with the sentimental motive in their judgments of men.

With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side...

South Holding, was the acknowledged leader of the Twenty-ninth Cave, but Summer Camp and