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As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

My eating habits were so bad for many years that I didn't actually know the intricacies of making a salad.

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down.

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

Good and evil are not like the Redskins and the Cowboys.

Maybe Obama was not even the person he was waiting for.

If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.

A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.

I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men.

When you go into a fight saying you're probably going to lose, you're probably going to lose.

When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.

The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing - or one person - at a time.

American women are evolving backward
becoming more focused on their looks than ever. Feminism has been defeated by narcissism.

It is men's worst fear, personally and professionally, that women will pin the sin on them.

We no longer have natural selection. We have unnatural selection. Survival of the fittest has been replaced by survival of the fakest.

Women have become so obsessed with not withering, they've forgotten that there are infinite ways to be beautiful.

The idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional.

The Republican game is hilariously transparent: if Obama doesn't shift to more muscular postures, he's not a patriot. If he does, he's a flip-flopper.

Personally, I've decided to stop evolving.

F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.

Obama hates selling. He thinks people should just accept the right thing to do.

Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention.

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

Celebrity is the religion of our time.

Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.

Women fear that men will have their way and then slither away. Men fear that women will come back and boil their bunnies.

I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.

President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that's not how adults with power respond to things.

Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.

If you're famous enough, the rules don't apply.

Women are affected by lunar tides only once a month; men have raging hormones every day.

Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt.

Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.

Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

Just because digital technology makes connecting possible doesn't mean you're actually reaching people.

Are women necessary? Not with Ava around

For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.