She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

Mr Reichman was brilliant and very good at what he did, but he was still a man, and men rarely knew what decisions a woman had or hadn't made.

Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business--you have to dig out a little place that's only yours.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.