Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the clich? that all men are beasts. She has no choice except to believe, on the contrary, that men are human beings, and she finds it hard to forgive them when they act like animals.