At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.

Both love and democracy depend on voice -- having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and be heard.

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.

Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.