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

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

For a man to say, "I have to leave work now because I need to do something with my kids," it's sometimes viewed as a career killer. He doesn't have the right drive. So when they depart from their gender roles, they face some of the same restrictions.

If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.

You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that with the fact that the Vatican did virtually nothing about long-known pedophiles, and it's just too much.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.