A portable friend to all readers-especia lly but not only women-who need to learn that the Golden Rule works only if it’s reversible: We must learn to treat ourselves as well as we wish to treat others.
Given the expectations of society at large, men are generally correct in their assumption that it is important for a woman to have a man. What they do not understand is how pathetically little difference it makes what man.
Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
I once fell in love with a man only because we both belonged to that large and secret club of children who had “crazy mothers.” We traded stories of the shameless houses to which we could never invite our friends.
The old languages – at least the ones I know – don’t have gender. They don’t have gendered pronouns. There’s no “he” and “she.” A human being is a human being.
No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.
Voting isn’t the most we can do. But it is the least.
Economics anxiety may be even more common than the often identified ‘math anxiety,’ for unlike math, which has its personal uses, economics is seen as a mysterious set of forces manipulated from above.
For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn’t yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.
It’s never to late for a happy childhood.
The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don’t care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.
It’s not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There’s opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.
A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
Feminism isn’t called the longest revolution for nothing.
There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.
Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they’re ashamed of.
Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.
This is what forty looks like. We’ve been lying so long, who would know?