Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.

Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can do.

I would say don't worry about what you should do, do whatever you can. And seek companions with shared values.

the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in order to survive, women have had to know men - yet the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.

My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.