Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.
Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.
Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.
[On the Barbie doll:] Her values, while somewhat Yuppified, are not so bad. Look at GI Joe. His only wardrobe is fatigues, he spends all his time trying to kill people, or getting his own innards splashed across the landscape. His big hobby is death.
What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age.
Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite the rules. You're not just changing a job description, but an ancient myth. You're revising the Bible, Poetry, Legend and Psychoanalytic Scripture.