I thought there was only one reason any new mother would take her baby to a stuffy talk in a quiet auditorium of an evening — desperation

It’s like we’re living life in dog years, and age seven years for every year a man ages

"I can’t imagine how hard it must have been for these young women, full of hopes, ambition, and vitality to shelve their dreams of careers, creative expression, and adventure and turn their focus instead to the domestic."

"Uniforms are often associated with the erasure of identity, of individuality, but there’s nothing to say you can’t dress up on special occasions or add a little individual flair to your basics."

Seeing just how remarkable it is for an older woman to have a number-one hit got me thinking about the fact that sometimes it can feel like we are expected to give up our youthful pursuits after a certain age

"Silence has been proven to boost cell growth in the brain and even a ten-minute rest in a quiet darkened room has been shown to improve memory."

The last two years seems to have slowly leached the spontaneity and joie-de-vivre from day-to-day life

Somewhere in the middle of the Celtic Tiger we seemed to forget that knowledge and experience can’t be bought but has to be earned

'The details were both sordid and titillating and we gobbled them up as quickly as they could be served'

"I grew up in a very body-positive environment. The attitude was, you are what you are, so make the most of what you’ve got"