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 haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.

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.

The highest use of the Web is getting the information and identifying the places and the possibility of being together physically.

I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising.

It's obviously a great sign of growth and success that the media no longer try to embody the bigness and diversity of the women's movement in one person. Only a diverse group can symbolize a movement.

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.