We need to stop raising boys to think that they need to prove their masculinity by being controlling or by not showing emotion or by not being little girls.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself.

The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as the adult companion her husband is not; the parents who urge their children into accomplishments as status symbols-all these and many more are ways of subordinating a child's authentic self to a parent s needs.