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

"If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?"

"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."