Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

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.

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.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

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.

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.