When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the White House lawn, that house ceases to be an American symbol; it becomes a Christian symbol.

The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her "job" is that the children's growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced as a refutation of the mother's indispensability, and she may unconsciously sabotage their growth as a result.

What I often say to people who are quick to say I’m not a feminist is if you think you’re not a feminist, give it all back.

Work-family conflicts - the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child - would not be forced upon women with such sanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

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

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.