We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks. — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
Contrary to all we hear about women and their empty-nest problem, it may be fathers more often than mothers who are pained by thechildren's… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
Sexual freedom is about choice. It's the freedom to say no as well as yes. — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next. — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
Society and personality live in a continuing reciprocal relation with each other. The search for personal change without efforts to change the institutions within… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
Women find ways to give sense and meaning to daily life--ways to be useful in the community, to keep mind active and soul growingeven… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
The depth of a friendship - how much it means to us ... depends, at least in part, upon how many parts of ourselves… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
The authoritarian child-rearing style so often found in working-class families stems in part from the fact that parents see aroundthem so many young people… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks. — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell of a… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
For sex to be wholly satisfying, we must have at least as much concern for a partner as for self - a requirement that… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women--the quality of shifting from child to woman, theseeming helplessness one… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
