In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker's productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband's pain and suffering.

Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.

I'm not saying that all women are blameless - all women are not. There are women with despicable characters who are cruel and terrible and some of them are mothers. But why do we blame our mothers more than our fathers? We let our fathers get away scot-free. We hardly even knew who they were in many cases, given the way this culture raises kids, and they may have been quite cruel. They may even have raped us as children, but even if they raped us, we will blame our mothers for not protecting us instead of blaming our fathers who actually did it.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.

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

Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.