Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.

I was 13 when my parents moved to Israel, and I was put in a Scottish mission school. Ninety-nine percent of the children were Israeli... Suddenly, I found myself speaking the wrong language, dressed in the wrong clothes, picked up by the wrong mode of transportation - an embassy car instead of a bus.

We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

A new car is not going to change your life.

The strategy we need to pursue is one of recovering our time - to push back on our hours of work. We need to form a new alliance between feminist groups, labor unions, child advocates, progressive corporations, and the federal government insofar as it's willing to pursue a family-friendly agenda.

People think getting a new partner is like getting a new car.