I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!
I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.
We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.
Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.
America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid.
But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.
Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.
It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.
Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.
The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.
Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.