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.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.

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

When you say something in a wrong group - it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don't belong to a group.

As a profession, freelance writing is notoriously insecure. That's the first argument in its favor. For many reasons, a few of them rational, the thought of knowing exactly what next year's accomplishments, routine, income, and vacation will be - or even what time I have to get up tomorrow morning - has always depressed me.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.