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

Work-family conflicts - the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child - would not be forced upon women with such sanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.

Control is a big issue when you're sick. It's the first thing you lose - other losses come later.

It's smart to be friends with one's sex partner but dumb to have sex with one's friends.

A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.

When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves.