Homemakers work longer and harder than any other class of worker in the United States for less pay, and are the most likely to be replaced by a younger worker.

The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful controls. On the contrary, I believe that hierarchy and painful controls create destructive people. And I no longer believe the liberal message that children are blank slates on which society can write anything. On the contrary, I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

Racism is not real, it's made up, it's cruel, it can be stopped.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.