The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.

Much female conversation is, in fact, about survival - but in code.

I say you hurt me. You say I scorned you. We say we care. It begins. The conversation begins.

In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.

Sometimes I feel like a sisterless child.

The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.

we perceive silence where, in fact, there is a muffler.