There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list. — Nancy Gibbs About Copy Share Image
All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together. — Nancy Gibbs Acts Copy Share Image
Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust… — Nancy Gibbs Anger Copy Share Image
Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to… — Nancy Gibbs Adulthood Copy Share Image
“To one degree or another every president is haunted by those who went before, but few so literally as Johnson. No president… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
“As a final indignity for the defeated warrior, Vice President Nixon had to preside over the roll call of the Electoral College.… — Nancy Gibbs Electoral college Copy Share Image
The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5. — Nancy Gibbs American Copy Share Image
War is being waged all across the country against the invasive plant and animal species - some 50,000 of them - now… — Nancy Gibbs Across Copy Share Image
It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon. — Nancy Gibbs Able 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 Fear Copy Share Image
It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace. — Nancy Gibbs Belief Copy Share Image
Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the… — Nancy Gibbs Carved Copy Share Image
Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement… — Nancy Gibbs Adds Copy Share Image
Teaching sometimes seems like not one profession, but every profession. We ask them to be doctor and diplomat, calf-herder, map-maker, wizard and… — Nancy Gibbs Ask Copy Share Image
Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to… — Nancy Gibbs Action 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 About Copy Share Image
Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools… — Nancy Gibbs Better Copy Share Image
In 2001, President George W. Bush was condemned for politicizing science with his decision to limit federal funding for stem-cell research; in… — Nancy Gibbs Arguably Copy Share Image
The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16… — Nancy Gibbs Asking Copy Share Image
Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide. — Nancy Gibbs Enter Copy Share Image
Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a… — Nancy Gibbs Adolescence Copy Share Image
“The only way to guarantee smart decisions, Ike believed, was to bring all the responsible parties together and have them fight it… — Nancy Gibbs Smart decisions Copy Share Image
