I thought a lot about our nation and what I should do as president. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two proble...ms of our country--energy and malaise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Families have always been in flux and often in crisis; they have never lived up to nostalgic notions about "the way things used to... be." But that doesn't mean the malaise and anxiety people feel about modern families are delusions, that everything would be fine if we would only realize that the past was not all it's cracked up to be. . . . Even if things were not always right in families of the past, it seems clear that some things have newly gone wrong.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Current conflicts and guilt about being a woman who is a mother and a person in her own right are a socially defined malaise, not ...an individual problem.... The conflict is not between being a mother and having a career; it is between nineteenth-century ideas about children and today's ideas about women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a million people gather for a p...rotest march on the White House green it will not be for abortion rights or gay liberation, but because we're all so bummed out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this Nation. Restori...ng that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »