- Dear Margo: Please Google Karen Carpenter
- Dear Margo: He Wants You to What?
- Liz Smith: Helen Mirren, a True Russki
- Liz Peek: Obama Deaf to Election Warning But May Get Bailed Out
- Interrogating Kate Gosselin and Rush Limbaugh (Video)
- Liz Smith: The 25 Faces of Anna Deavere Smith
- Are you photogenic?
- Dining room table? Fur coat? A new house? What was your first 'adult' purchase?
- As we approach Sesame Street's 40th birthday, tell us: What is your favorite memory of Sesame Street?
- Living Landmarks With Liz Smith and Tommy Tune (Photos)
- Liz Smith: Helen Mirren, a True Russki
- Dear Margo: Please Google Karen Carpenter
- Liz Smith: The 25 Faces of Anna Deavere Smith
- Dear Margo: He Wants You to What?
- When Candice Bergen Bought John Barrymore's Aviary
- What Adult Purchase 'Scared' Joan Ganz Cooney?
- As we approach Sesame Street's 40th birthday, tell us: What is your favorite memory of Sesame Street?
- Announcing the Winner of Our 'Caption This' Contest
- Mary Wells's First New York Experience
- Sheila Nevins Applauds Joan Ganz Cooney
- Liz Peek: Obama Deaf to Election Warning But May Get Bailed Out
- Dear Margo: Please Google Karen Carpenter
- Dear Margo: He Wants You to What?
- Interrogating Kate Gosselin and Rush Limbaugh (Video)
- Dining room table? Fur coat? A new house? What was your first 'adult' purchase?
- As we approach Sesame Street's 40th birthday, tell us: What is your favorite memory of Sesame Street?
- Are you photogenic?
- Living Landmarks With Liz Smith and Tommy Tune (Photos)
- Liz Smith: The 25 Faces of Anna Deavere Smith
- Announcing the Winner of Our 'Caption This' Contest






























My Comments (137 so far…)
The Love Goddess: Are We Too Far Gone for Monogamy?
We should start out with the question of who created the concept of "monogamy". Men did, for the purpose of knowing that they fathered the children they were feeding. They did not wish to feed children of other men.
When a woman is past the stage of child bearing is there a real purpose to monogamous behavior? There is certainly, if that is the type of relationship she wishes to have AND her partner is of a like mind.
For 22 years of marriage I was monogamous for all of the reasons stated in the comments above. i had given my word, I respected myself, and ethical behavior is a central pillar of my character. That is not to say that I was not occasionally tempted, but my word has ALWAYS been my bond. It nearly destroyed me.
My husband, on the other hand, because of his own emotional cowardice and dissatisfaction with our marriage, ended up seeking other women and ultimately (while on a job 2000 miles from our home) moving in with a woman. this after telling me that we had to get married because (I wished to live together) anything else implied a lack of commitment.
I was widowed in 2007 and will never again allow anyone to tell me what I must do and who I must be. I was born to be a free spirit, and that means a freedom to choose who I wish to go to bed with. Monogamy may be for some people and I applaud their choice. It is not for ALL people. And I should not be labeled promiscuous or slutty because my choices differ from yours. For women to be willing to judge each other so harshly based on values created by men is a pity, because I assure you men do not engage in that kind of labeling.
Listen to them talk to each other about sex, men who have multiple sex partners are celebrated or at worst poked fun at, but they are never called something as ugly sounding as the word slut. Why do we do that to each other?
Now that we've lost Pulitzer Prize-winning 'oracle of language' William Safire, to whom should we turn for linguistic wisdom?
Do you think Jackie Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy had an affair?
What is your traveling personality?
What is your traveling personality?
Caption This!
Is Obama's hope for global denuclearization realistic?
The wOw Conversation: Why Do People Put Up With Abuse?
Obama’s Czars Play Russian Roulette With Business, by Liz Peek
Liz, I would like to know if you have an opinion about the Economist Peter Schiff. Frankly his ideas sound a lot like your ideas taken to the next level.
I would appreciate your opinion
Who is your favorite newspaper columnist, the one you would follow anywhere?
How do you tell the time?
Expense abuses have run amok in British Parliament. Is the corruption of power inevitably a human condition?
The 63rd Annual Tony Awards: Liza Minnelli, Angela Lansbury, Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and More! (Photos)
The one that lit my fire was "Next to Normal", BUT "God of CArnage" came in a close second.
I am a singer.
Who is your favorite newspaper columnist, the one you would follow anywhere?
Who is your favorite newspaper columnist, the one you would follow anywhere?