The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo.

How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell of a woman--a woman in constant pain because her children no longer live under her roof? Is it possible that a notion so pervasive is, in fact, just a myth?

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

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

Women find ways to give sense and meaning to daily life--ways to be useful in the community, to keep mind active and soul growingeven while they change diapers and cook vegetables.

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.

Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women