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

The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.

In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.

Karla Jay's intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but as credible, humorous, and unexpected as real life.

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.