The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.
— Nancy Gibbs
We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.
It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely.
Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical - as has Pope Francis.
It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.
Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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 your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.
Right now, doctors can test for about 2,500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do you do with the knowledge about the others?
There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.
Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take.
Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships.
I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.
I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.
In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.
Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.
When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
Time is valuable; people are busy.
I'm wondering how many elected figures any of us could find who do not, in the front or back of their minds, remember who does them favors, who doesn't.
When I was coming out of college, storytelling was very much something you did with pencil and paper, so the technological platform versatility, I think, is really valuable.
There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
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 as we have with our phones.
'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.
Teaching sometimes seems like not one profession, but every profession. We ask them to be doctor and diplomat, calf-herder, map-maker, wizard and watchman, electricians of the mind.
Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people.
Across much of the developing world, by the time she is 12, a girl is tending house, cooking, cleaning. She eats what's left after the men and boys have eaten; she is less likely to be vaccinated, to see a doctor, to attend school.
At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally.
I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.
We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.
There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before.
You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
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 about it.
In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.
Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.
Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind.
If anything, the power of the cover of 'Time' has increased as the media landscape has atomized.
Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
