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.

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.

Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.