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

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.

What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.

Humor tells you where the trouble is.

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.

Sometimes I feel like a sisterless child.