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

We can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back.

To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

What I've found is that there is an enormous shift taking place in our society. Suddenly there are all young women who are better educated and earning more money than men their age. When young couples today decide to marry, they have very different expectations of one another than their parents did. And there's even been change at the very top of the career ladder. People tend to underestimate that.

We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.

If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.