The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as the adult companion her husband is not; the parents who urge their children into accomplishments as status symbols-all these and many more are ways of subordinating a child's authentic self to a parent s needs.

Women and men are equal human beings.

Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.

This is what forty looks like. We've been lying so long, who would know?

Writing is always harder than talking.

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

The ends and means are a seamless web.