Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.

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

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.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

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.

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son's future are counting on me.