We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks.

Whatever else we may say about sex, it is at least as much a social and psychological phenomenon as it is a biological one.

The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next.

For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.

Intimacy. We hunger for it, but we also fear it.

We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks.

Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women--the quality of shifting from child to woman, theseeming helplessness one moment and the utter self-reliance the next that baffle us, that seem most difficult to understand. These are the qualities that make her a mystery, the qualities that provoked Freud to complain, "What does a woman want?