What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?

You do have all five sense when you're in a room together. You communicate and understand each other in a much deeper way. It is a different form of communication from writing or being on the web.

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

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.

... if young women have a problem, it's only that they think there's no problem.

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.

Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.