Illness is the proving ground of friendship.

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.

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

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.

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 feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does.

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.