Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.

Feminists have not tried to "destroy the family". We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want to get involved in it too.

Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine.

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.

The money that fueled the explosion of gluttony at the top had to come from somewhere or, more specifically, from someone. Since no domestic oil deposits had been discovered, no new seams of uranium or gold, and since the war in Iraq enriched only the military contractors and suppliers, it had to come from other Americans.