Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.

when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.

Why are solutions not just as newsworthy as problems? The notion that hostility is necessary all the time to create interest and news is not going to help us [humanity] come to agreements and solve the huge problems we have.

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

I always thought that "humanist" was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word.

If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.