Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the White House lawn, that house ceases to be an American symbol; it becomes a Christian symbol.

When men are oppressed, it’s a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it’s tradition.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.