Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Karla Jay's intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but as credible, humorous, and unexpected as real life.

Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.

Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.

Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged (or so we thought) from the outside in.

I wasn't ever unable to function, but I did realize at some point that I had built a wall between myself and my childhood by saying, "I'm so glad that's over. Nothing can ever be as bad again," without understanding that my childhood was still very much with me.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.