A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

We teach what we need to learn.

Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.

In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.

Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.

So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?

If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child, therefore take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54," then it's another story.