The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers.

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.

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.

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

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, 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.

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

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.

There`s no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

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.

But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you`re afraid.

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.

There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.

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.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless is mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

"My principal complaint [against California Governor Gray Davis] is that he is somebody who`s brought a tremendous amount of ingenuity, creativity and passion to fund-raising, but not to governing."

[Regarding her political transformation] "When I was a Republican, Saddam Hussein was our ally, George Bush owned a mediocre baseball team, Enron was a respected energy company and Michael Jackson was still black."