Has beens Quote by Lillian B. Rubin

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

Sexual freedom is about choice. It's the freedom to say no as well as yes.

— Lillian B. Rubin

The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next.

— Lillian B. Rubin

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

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

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

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

We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks.

— Lillian B. Rubin

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

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

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

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