A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim 'She looked ten years younger,' or do we want them to say 'She lived a great life'?

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.

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

Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.

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.

Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.