Marlo Thomas, 2/17/12

Award-winning actress, author, and activist

As far as I'm concerned, the only thing Tiger Moms and Eagle Dads will do is ensure a boon for psychiatrists 20 years from now, as they try to help a whole generation of young adults reconcile childhoods in which they were pushed too hard and too far.

Amy Spencer, 2/17/12

Author of 'Bright Side up: 100 Ways To Be Happier Right Now'

Our experience is relative. And while we may not have a choice about the matter, we do have a choice about the mindset.

Women & Co, 2/17/12

As a self-proclaimed health nut, I'll admit it: I sometimes get caught up in the things I love to do -- my favorite Pilates class and enjoying an organic meal -- and forget to consider their cost.

Kenya (Robinson), 2/16/12

Performance artist based in New Haven, Connecticut and in Brooklyn, New York.

I've seen white women crying in films, traveling on various modes of public transportation, the workplace, in the line at the MoMA, the DMV, the bank...

Pamela Redmond Satran, 2/16/12

Developer of nameberry.com

It would be as comforting as it is infuriating to believe that, but I'm not so sure. It's not so much that Jonathan Franzen is eating my lunch, I'm afraid, as that he's eating the lunch I should be eating, could be eating, but, through my own damn fault, have not been freaking eating.

Lisa Belkin, 2/15/12

Senior Columnist on Life/Work/Family, Huffington Post

What, nowadays, is the meaning of the word wife? It certainly is not what it used to be -- but it hasn't yet come to mean something new, either.

Esther Joseph, 2/17/12

Author

Just laying there, all I wanted was for the pain to stop. I was convinced dying was my only way out. My hope is that, by offering a voice and a face to the cause of ending abuse, my own suffering was not in vain.

Nancy Colier, 2/15/12

Psychotherapist, interfaith minister, writer and public speaker

To be strong is not to outrun sadness, but rather to learn to embrace it when it is here, to take good care of it so that it can heal. This is a warrior's strength, a wise parent's strength.

Sandy Abrams, 2/16/12

Founder & CEO, Moisture Jamzz, Inc./Author Your Idea, Inc.

Mompreneurs are in love with technology. It allows us to be uber productive, run a biz from home affordably and professionally while being a mom, and even have fun on social media while building our own brands.

Nedda Alammar, 2/16/12

Humorist, essayist

Has the rate of divorce in this country and Lifetime movies about women who kill their husbands not taught us anything?

Leah Odze Epstein, 2/16/12

Co-founder of The Drinking Diaries blog

How many times have you said to yourself, "I'm never going to (fill in the blanks with your vice)," only to beat yourself up when you ended up (drinking, smoking, eating ice cream) twice as much?

Debra Ollivier, 2/15/12

Contributing editor and writer at large, Huff/Post50

The French are groomed to think about love from an early age not in the absolutes of total love or utter rejection, but in nuances and a range of possibilities.

Lois Alter Mark, 2/14/12

Co-founder, StyleSubstanceSoul.com; Flicks for Kids Editor, NickJr.com

The comfort of "pink" has softened the disease and given it a warm, fuzzy feel that any woman with breast cancer will tell you is just plain wrong.

Kathy Caprino, 2/14/12

Women's work-life expert, career coach, and Founder of Ellia Communications

As I deliver my coaching and professional development programs to women around the country, I continue to observe a fascinating phenomenon: an enormously large number...

Kate Fridkis, 2/10/12

Blogger, Eat The Damn Cake

But the model's so skinny, I keep thinking, unoriginally (don't worry, I know how unoriginal it is), but it's almost the ordinariness of the observation that makes it meaningful.

Jamie Lee Curtis, 2/12/12

Actress and children's book author

It is not fame's fault. It is no one's fault. Do you blame cancer on fame? Do you blame diabetes on fame? It is a disease and like cancer, diabetes and depression, it is everywhere. Alcoholism and addiction is ever present and it wants you dead.

Daniel Burrus, 2/15/12

Technology Futurist, Keynote Speaker, Author

Who is running and leading the companies that make the products women are buying for themselves and their families? Increasingly, it's women.