I've finally figured out why soap operas are, and logically should be, so popular with generations of housebound women. They are the only place in our culture where grown-up men take seriously all the things that grown-up women have to deal with all day long.

I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

it's possible to be pro-sex and anti-pornography.

An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.

A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.

This idea of doing it all is the enemy of equality, not the path to do it. It's impossible to do two full-time jobs, and an impossible definition of success is just another way of making women feel like failures... Any definition of success has to include social policies that honor families and men who raise babies as much as women do.