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

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

Over the years, I've found that I either live life or write about it. I can't seem to do both simultaneously - I have to do it sequentially. When I write incessantly, I lose touch with the issues and passions that fuel the work. But when I get too involved in organizations or movement endeavors, I almost forget that I'm a writer. It's a constant struggle to find a balance between these two worlds - the solitary writing life and the life of a social justice activist.

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

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?

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

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