If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.

Green jobs - those are jobs that feel like new economy jobs; they do require some training.

Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.

The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.

Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.

Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent.

Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.