Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.
I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother and partly because...
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict...
I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and...
Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful but not in a cute...
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation it...
The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
Hope begins in the dark the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try...
We can't understand when we're pregnant or when our siblings are expecting...
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you...
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns...
My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I...
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A...
Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are...
Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty...
Much can and must be done by governments but they cannot of themselves...
I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians...
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into...
I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying...
The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.