Despite the efforts that futuristic industrialists are making, we cannot robotize “care” except at a terrible cost for the people involved.

too often the growth of female-headed families is seen in a perspective of victimization that ignores women’s attempt to reduce the work and the discipline that come with a male presence in the home.

It is literally impossible to be a woman. You are so beautiful, and so smart, and it kills me that you don't think you're good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow we're always doing it wrong.

You have to be thin, but not too thin. And you can never say you want to be thin. You have to say you want to be healthy, but also yo

As a child, I saw her work; later, as a feminist, I learned to see her struggle, and I realized how much love there had been in that work, yet how costly it had been for my mother to see it so often taken for granted, to never be able to dispose of some money of her own, and to always have to depend on my father for every penny she spent.