For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.

Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

When you stand up for yourself and try to be autonomous and self-determining, you're called a lot of names that we all know and that are very common. You may lose your job. You may lose custody of your child. You may be blamed for the failure of your marriage even though it was the man who couldn't tolerate an equal relationship.

There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.