Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.

Down the stairs and up Fifth Avenue. Hippety-hop, I'm a Bunny!

Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious.

My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.

Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.

Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself.

I once fell in love with a man only because we both belonged to that large and secret club of children who had "crazy mothers." We traded stories of the shameless houses to which we could never invite our friends.