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- With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go straight from the…
- It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and…
- Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay…
- Ask any woman how she makes it through the day, and she may mention her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But if you push…
- 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.
- All the things we don’t say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble.
- Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they…
- New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of…
- A week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me in a woman of forty-six…
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