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

No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love - except the housewife

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

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

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