A significant minority of senior women I've interviewed say, 'Love the companionship, glad to live with him, but I spent my first marriage picking up after a man and I'm not going to do that anymore.

Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.

Nostalgia wouldn't begin to capture your sense of loss, ... The Way We Really Are Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families.

The idea that academics should remain ''above the fray'' only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.

The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits and at the same time made them primarily responsible for care giving.

There is one group of people - social conservatives, religious conservatives - who honestly feel that women's place is in the home and that wives should submit to their husbands.

Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.

The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits, at the same time made them primarily responsible for care giving.

The worst problems for children stem from parental conflict, before, during, and after divorce or within marriage.

The benefits of feminism have been unequally distributed, because the move toward gender equality and gender neutrality has been countered to a large extent by the increase in economic inequality.

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up...

In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.

The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

The States are nations.

How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself?

My father didn't want to go to Manhattan for me, and I came to Manhattan and I have done a great job in Manhattan. And then I wrote a best-seller and I wrote numerous best-sellers.

The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.

You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not to compete for what is already created.