I wasn't penniless, but I was temporarily without means. Still, I'd done it to myself. It was unbelievable.

They're supposed to be independent but still swoon over a diamond engagement ring.

We've gotten caught in a time warp where our economic realities have changed faster than our expectations and identities, Money, a Memoir: Women, Emotions and Cash.

We continue to consume because we have come to believe that a life of love, comfort and safety for ourselves and for our children can be obtained item by item.

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.