Newsflash: Women can be creatively fulfilled in more than one way. For instance, I've published several novels while raising three children. My sister directed many plays while raising her three children. Raising children and pursuing artistic endeavors can go hand in hand. As my kids would say: Duh.

Gawd, I hate when people say publishing is all about who you know or how famous you are. I worked really hard on my first novel, did many, many drafts of it, and then queried many agents until I got one (who I had no connections to at all). Penguin published my novel. It got great reviews, and sold pretty well. I…

I'm sitting in my fluffy white bathrobe at close to 5 p.m. on Sunday. My husband's fine with that. I drank two cups of coffee today. My husband doesn't drink coffee. We had a romantic dinner out last night at a restaurant I chose. I got married at 29 and have been married 20 years. I am completely satisfied too.

I have. It's great. Gorgeous prose and heartbreaking characters.

You could have spent much less than 60k. You chose not to.

I rented my gown and veil. They were gorgeous and cheap. I don't remember the exact amount, because it was 20 years ago. My best friend got married a week after me and bought her dress. She spent more on alterations for the dress than I spent renting the dress and veil.

I think Amnesty International has more important things to do, like help rape victims, people unjustly imprisoned, and families of murder victims.

I feel lucky to work part-time from home so I can stay home with my kids. It's not just luck though. Before I stayed home with my kids, I worked as a lawyer for nine years and saved much of the money I earned by living well below my means. I also waited until my mid-thirties to have kids.

"Extra-silly" = judgment. I'm guessing you have zero children or one child.

I worked as a lawyer for nine years. Now I work part-time from home. My husband travels a lot. I used to travel a lot as a lawyer. We have three kids. Here is why it's not easy for us to both work full-time once the first kid turned five: Once our oldest started kindergarten (which is only three and a half hours long…

Well, if you're that rich, you don't need the sales proceeds right away, so you might as well wait until you get a good price.

Yes, and threw rocks at a black child while calling him the n-word. http://zzzlist.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/racist-midget-actor-mark-wahlberg-ties-the-knot/

I'm 50 and I wouldn't stay in a relationship with a man who wouldn't do his share. My husband and I lived together for a year and a half before we married. I wanted to make sure we could keep house togehter and iron out any problems before we tied the knot. We've been married 20 years and have three kids. The five of…

I liked Sarah Silverman's book and Tina Fey's book. Both were funny and had some depth and some quite honest parts. I love Jen Lancaster's books. I've read three of them. Haven't tried her novels. I loved Kathy Griffin's memoir too. Very honest and funny. I'm one of the few who didn't like Jenny Lawson's book. She…

I've had very large breasts since I was 14 and have had lots of creepy guys do creepy things to me. Three times in my life, in L.A., Boston, and Berkeley, guys have exposed themselves to me in public in daylight. The cops caught the Boston guy, and it turned out he was wanted for doing worse things. Three different…

I think it's horrible, and I'm so glad she didn't have custody of her sons. My former coworker killed his kids before killing himself. What a selfish and self-centered piece of shit.

I took the abortion pill about 11 years ago in CA. It was given to me legally at a clinic. I spent only an hour or two in the clinic itself. I was 6 weeks pregnant. I felt a bit physically ill for about a day. I'm surprised the pill is not more commonly used by now.

So you get the portion of a room that's not occupied by your douchebag roommates' musical instruments, and you get your douchebag roommates' loser friends in your living room every night including weeknights? All that for $800. What a bargain.

My friend's daughter graduated from Duke a couple of years ago, pre-med. She's now in South America in the Peace Corps., with plans to go to med school and join Doctors Without Borders or a similar organization. She's a very nice person, and Asian to boot.

If the stress is making you suicidal, you should drop the AP classes and the quest for great grades. Your emotional well-being is much more important than your transcript, and many people with mediocre grades and no AP classes do great in life.