In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.

Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.

Hatred is love frustrated.

The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby.

The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.

Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.