I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.

The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.

Hazing is both testing and training to subordinate self to the team.

The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.

If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?

Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.

I define power as control over ones life. A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.

When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.

A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.

When turbulence hits your sails remind yourself it is an opportunity to get to the shore quicker.

I can't find who wrote this (it was't me)but I think it is great. Before I was your mother, I was a girl.

I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Be the best version of yourself rather than a bad copy of someone else!

A god or revelation capable of proof or rational verification by an autonomous man would be worthless.

my experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there.

Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.

The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.