High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
I live in a dumb house. Which is not to say that I don't love its quirky charm, its drafty windows and… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Across much of the developing world, by the time she is 12, a girl is tending house, cooking, cleaning. She eats what's… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too; our fear lets us practice valor;… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
If anything, the power of the cover of 'Time' has increased as the media landscape has atomized. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room.… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
The millennials were raised in a cocoon, their anxious parents afraid to let them go out in the park to play. So should we… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
[Former chief executives] come away thinking that America needs a strong, functioning presidency to succeed, and they become very protective of that office. Democrats… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
“Lydon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who had been like family… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
For God to be kept out of the classroom or out of America's public debate by nervous school administrators or overcautious politicians serves no… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image