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.
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.