Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the day, the children are schooled outside it, and practically all women who work for money must go outside to earn their living.

Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

we expect definitions to tell us not only what is, but what to do about it; to show us how the world fits together and how its different parts connect and work. ... A label is the first step toward action.