"I finally had an aha about it which is that we are mostly uh women as well as men raised by women when we're children. and we come to think that female Authority is only appropriate to Childhood. so I…"

"Marriage was the only one of the 'four institutions' that survived the 20th century. It's a miracle."

"We tend to forget that every revolution or social change is like a tree — it grows from the bottom up, not the top down. However small it may seem to begin, that does not matter because it will grow."

"A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers."

"The surest way to be lonely is to be married to a man who is not your friend."