I've never believed that women have some special, essentialist qualities, or were more nurturing, cooperative, and morally superior.

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.

The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.

In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

The women's movement. . . has proved women's own worst enemy.

The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.

When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.

Gender is really varied and complicated and sort of infinitely individualistic.

For some high-profile men in trouble, women, especially feminist women, became the all-purpose scapegoats-charged with crimes that often descended into the absurd.

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.

The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic.

Understand from top to bottom what the effort requires.

In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always raining. Even when it wasn't raining, it was about to rain, or had just rained. It's a very angry sky.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

No one ever outgrows the need for a mother's love.

All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.

Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.