Compared to other parents, remarried parents seem more desirous of their child's approval, more alert to the child's emotional state, and more sensitive in their parent-child relations. Perhaps this is the result of heightened empathy for the child's suffering, perhaps it is a guilt reaction; in either case, it gives the child a potent weapon--the power to disrupt the new household and come between parent and the new spouse.

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 want to visit Memory Lane, I don't want to live there.

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

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

If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.

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