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

Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.

I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.

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?

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

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

When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the White House lawn, that house ceases to be an American symbol; it becomes a Christian symbol.