In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, dec...ade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yiddish acted as the cement that bound the Jewish community together on a socialist foundation. What language we spoke was critica...l. It reflected our identity, our loyalty, our distinctness not only from the gentile environment, but from other Jews as well. The use of Yiddish was an expression not only of love of a language, but of pride in ourselves as a people; it was an acknowledgement of a historical and cultural yerushe, heritage, a link to generations of Jews who came before and to the political activists of Eastern Europe. Above all it was the symbol of resistance to assimilation, an insistence on remaining who we were.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But there, where I have garnered up my heart, Where either I must live or bear no life;... The fountain from the which my current runs Or else dries up: to be discarded thence, Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads To knot and gender in!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A new kind of woman with deep-rooted values is changing the way we live. Market researchers call it "neo-traditionalism." To us it...'s a woman who has found her identity in herself, her home, her family.... She is part of an extraordinary social movement that is profoundly changing the way Americans look at living--and the way products are marketed. The home is again the center of American life, oatmeal is back on the breakfast table, families are vacationing together, watching movies at home, playing Monopoly again. Even the perfume ads are suddenly glorifying commitment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The primary imperative for women who intend to assume a meaningful and decisive role in today's social change is to begin to perce...ive themselves as having an identity and personal integrity that has as strong a claim for being preserved intact as that of any other individual or group.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Class, race, sexuality, gender--and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other--need to be excavated from ...the inside.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Human beings are distinguished by a capacity for experience as well as by their behavior, and homosexuality is as much a matter of... emotion as of genital manipulation.... As we each examine our own sense of identity we realize how much more complex is the question of homosexuality than a mere Kinsey-like computation of orgasms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ideal of men and women sharing equally in parenting and working is a vision still. What would it be like if women and men were... less different from each other, if our worlds were not so foreign? A male friend who shares daily parenting told me that he knows at his very core what his wife's loving for their daughter feels like, and that this knowing creates a stronger bond between them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Parenting can be established as a time-share job, but mothers are less good "switching off" their parent identity and turning to s...omething else. Many women envy the father's ability to set clear boundaries between home and work, between being an on-duty and an off-duty parent.... Women work very hard to maintain a closeness to their child. Father's value intimacy with a child, but often do not know how to work to maintain it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Adolescent girls were fighting a mother's interference because they wanted her to acknowledge their independence. Whatever resentm...ent they had was not towards a mother's excessive concern, or even excessive control, but towards her inability to see, and appreciate, their maturing identity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »