I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one hundred men because of a decision handed down by a court comprised of nine men--on an issue that affects millions of women.... I have the feeling that if men could get pregnant, we wouldn't be struggling for this legislation. If men could get pregnant, maternity benefits would be as sacrosanct as the G.I. Bill.

I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at the head of the table with a crown on my head.

Friends seem to be like aspirin; we don't really know why they make a sick person feel better, but they do.

If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.

Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.

It's smart to be friends with one's sex partner but dumb to have sex with one's friends.

Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for children in danger. We fail to make the connection between the use of force on children themselves, and violent antisocial behavior, or the connection between watching father batter mother and the child deducing a link between violence and masculinity.