Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids a...nd their elders' cold unconcern toward others. Maybe the homeless are not the only ones who need to spend time in these places to thaw out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a year ...less than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and... torturous, involving and utterly tedious, all at the same time. The world is full of women made to feel strange because what everyone assumes comes naturally is so difficult to do--never mind to do well.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I learned that if I ever claim sexual harassment, I will be confronted with every bozo I once dated, every women I once impressed ...as snotty and superior, and together they will provide a convenient excuse to disbelieve me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some of us were ambivalent, but we don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right.... Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homag...e to their servile and salivating roots own dogs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where we come from in America no longer signifies--it's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are....r />The irony of the role of women in my business, and in so many other places, too, was that while we began by demanding that we be allowed to mimic the ways of men, we wound up knowing we would have to change those ways. Not only because those ways were not like ours, but because they simply did not work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by confl...ict between autonomy and security.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once again, we've wasted time and money by dealing with the homeless backward. Too much energy has gone into deciding where we do ...not want them to be, and making sure that they would not be there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The tradition I cherish is the ideal this country was built upon, the concept of religious pluralism, of a plethora of opinions, o...f tolerance and not the jihad. Religious war, pooh. The war is between those who trust us to think and those who believe we must merely be led.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »