A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't.
Suzanne Fields

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.
Suzanne Fields

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.
Suzanne Fields

Dostoevski does not tell you what to think about his legend, but he requires that you think about it. The novelist was a deeply religious man and he always thought many readers missed that point about him.
Suzanne Fields

Everybody's looking for the niche to make the difference. Some people think they see the mother lode in the beautiful people, especially the vote of the beautiful women.
Suzanne Fields

Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn't nourish the body - or the soul.
Suzanne Fields

Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too.
Suzanne Fields

German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.
Suzanne Fields

Great teachers transcend ideology.
Suzanne Fields

HBO has 28 million subscribers, small stuff compared to TBS, which can be seen in 88 million homes.
Suzanne Fields


Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.
Suzanne Fields

If any of the beautiful people plan to vote for the president, they usually keep their secret to themselves.
Suzanne Fields

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.
Suzanne Fields

It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious.
Suzanne Fields

It's long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come.
Suzanne Fields

It's not very hip to consider the plight of single women who yearn for something so old-fashioned as men.
Suzanne Fields

Johnny Cash was plenty good enough to fool his fans. They believed he felt it in his soul when he sang the Gospel while stoned on drugs.
Suzanne Fields

Lebanon is restless, Syria got its walking papers, Egypt is scheduling elections with more than one candidate, and even Saudi Arabia, whose rulers are perhaps more terrified of women than rulers anywhere else in the world, allowed limited municipal elections.
Suzanne Fields

Many critics of the Palestinians, especially those in Congress, think the current calm is merely the eye of the storm. That's why the House of Representatives approved a foreign aid package last week that forbade the direct financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority .
Suzanne Fields

Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews.
Suzanne Fields