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

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

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.

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.

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'?

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.