The ultra-right would have us believe that families are in trouble because of humanism, feminism, secular education, or sexual liberation, but the consensus of Americans is that what tears families apart is unemployment, inflation, and financial worries.

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.

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

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.

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

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

We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.