If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything?

To me, a person's identity is composed of both an 'I' and a 'we.' The 'I' finds itself in love, work, and pleasure, but it also locates itself within some meaningful group identity - a tribe, a community, a 'we.' America is too big and bland a tribe for most of us.

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.

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

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

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.