My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.

The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.

I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.

I'm ready to become a French person amongst French people, and more than ever I have the love for my country deeply ingrained in my heart.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.

Money isn't everything. Do you get married because of money? Do you have kids because of money?

Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make.