Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything?

What I often say to people who are quick to say I’m not a feminist is if you think you’re not a feminist, give it all back.

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.

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.

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

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

In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes.... In mid-nineteenth- century France, families abandoned their children at the rate of thirty-three thousand a year.... It took sixty years after the criminalization of cruelty to animals for cruelty to children to be made punishable under English law.... Industrialized America added brutalizing child labor to the oppressions of the young.