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.

The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than the commune, kibbutz, or classroom, it seems to individualize and socialize its children, to make us feel at the same time unique and yet joined to all humanity, accepted as is and yet challenged to grow, loved unconditionally and yet propelled by greater expectations. Only in the family can so many extremes be reconciled and synthesized. Only in the family do we have a lifetime in which to do it.

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.

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

I want to visit Memory Lane, I don't want to live there.

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.