“A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.”

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

“A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.”

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

“The "feminine" woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow.”

“Are you still as angry as you used to be?' Julia, the World War II resistance fighter, asked Lillian Hellman in the biographical [movie] Julia. "I like your anger…. Don't you let anyone talk you out of it.”

“The anti-feminism bacllash has been set off not by women's achievement of full equality but by the increased possibility that they might win it. It is a pre-emptive strike that stops women long before they reach the finishing line.”