Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.

The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.

There is no such thing as being too independent.

Rape is a culturally fostered means of suppressing women. Legally we say we deplore it, but mythically we romanticize and perpetuate it, and privately we excuse and overlook it.