What stunned me was the regular assertion that feminists were "anti-family." . . . It was motherhood that got me into the movement... in the first place. I became an activist after recognizing how excruciatingly personal the political was to me and my sons. It was the women's movement that put self-esteem back into "just a housewife," rescuing our intelligence from the junk pile of "instinct" and making it human, deliberate, powerful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
it was older sure than this year's cutting, Or even last year's or the year's before.... The wood was gray and the bark warping off it And the pile somewhat sunken. Clematis Had wound strings round and round it like a bundle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Haul them off! Hide them! The heart winces... For junk and gimcrack, for jerrybuilt things And the men who make them for a little money,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's a wonderful family called Stein: There's Gert and there's Ep and there's Ein.... Gert's poems are bunk, Ep's statues are junk, And no-one can understand Ein.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wouldn't be above brainwashing your child about which shows you think are good and which you think are just awful. Nor would I h...esitate to enlighten a child about products that are advertised on TV. If you watch a commercial with your child, say to him, "Remember when we saw that toy at the store and it was just a piece of junk? You can't always tell when you see it on TV, because there are ways of filming it at different angles to make it look bigger and more powerful. Keep that in mind when you think you want all those toys they advertise."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women... have all the qualities--courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning--whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is probably not more than one hundred dollars in cash in circulation today. That is, if you were to call in all the bills an...d silver and gold in the country at noon tomorrow and pile them on the table, you would find that you had just about one hundred dollars, with perhaps several Canadian pennies and a few peppermint Life Savers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a mother I am often confused about how to help my children make wise decisions for themselves. One day I extol the virtues of a... free and open education and the next I tell them they can't watch TV until they finish their homework. One day I tell them to eat what they like, their bodies know intuitively what they need; and the next I say, "Okay, that's it--no more junk food in this house!" I flounder like this because I have no training and very little support for this work and there are days when I'm the one who needs the parenting, even more than they do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the e...ndless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »