the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness.

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.

The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.

In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

The women's movement. . . has proved women's own worst enemy.

The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.

When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.

Gender is really varied and complicated and sort of infinitely individualistic.

For some high-profile men in trouble, women, especially feminist women, became the all-purpose scapegoats-charged with crimes that often descended into the absurd.

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

It is better to love truly at seventeen than pretend at thirty.

Actually I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years.

I have been called the human jukebox, yes. But karaoke is not meant for people who can sing!

Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.

With my solo music, often it's just about looking for interesting sounds that may or may not resonate emotionally.

Why, I make more money than-than-than Calvin Coolidge, put together!

Everything looks better in the morning.

My family was all police and hard hats at the refineries; they didn't know what to think about me. So I became a closet writer.

Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.

It's fun being on a TV show and not having to wear heels.