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There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'

I can't imagine the reading is still going on. He's written about Canada, for God's sake. How much can there be to say?

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.

Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.

The first inkling my husband had that I was thinking about suicide was when he checked my blog.

In a perfect world, probably we'd never yell, we'd just be firm and dispassionate. But of course, everyone yells at their children.

Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.

As if one's capacity for pain had anything to do with life's apportionment of agonies, Mr. Kimmelbrod thought. Such idiocy.

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?

My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.

I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.

People never bothered to pay attention to those who served them. Waiters and drivers were the most invisible people in the world.

The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.

My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence.

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

I love reader mail, and I do read it, but I won't read hate mail.

[W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.