Some provocative quotes

Maybe, at least in the context of Western industrial democracies, what we need at this stage is not a women's movement at all but a gender equality movement -- one clearly committed to fairness and equity for individuals regardless of sex, not just to the empowerment or betterment of women.

The growing educational disparity is most probably affecting the dynamics of mating: in 1970 American women aged 25 to 44 with a bachelor's or higher degree were outnumbered by their male counterparts 58 to 100, but in 1998 they outnumbered males 104 to 100, a ratio that will increase. This difference suggests that educated women will have a harder time finding a comparably educated mate.

Like most of today's movies about relationships, "What Women Really Want" is relentlessly anti-male. Men are dense. Men are crude. Men are self-centered. Men just don't listen. From the Oprah-Rosie vineyards comes a fine whine.

NOW is regressive, fighting dated political battles, "whoring for the Democratic Party," as Camille Paglia puts it, fund-raising by stereotyping conservatives as enemies of women.

My grandmother was a very nasty woman. ... I don't think she should have been left near children. Zero comfort zone, frightening, aggressive. Occasionally physically quite violent.

It's about time to insist on equal accountability for women and equal compassion for men.

The dirty secret of the divorce industry is that child support has little to do with supporting children and everything to do with increasing the power of adults: judges, lawyers, district attorneys, social workers, bureaucratic police and many others who have a vested interest in separating as many children as possible from their fathers.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

It is still true, for example, that despite our well-placed concern about "hate crimes," a black person is far more likely to be murdered by another black than by anyone else.

This year, the United States achieved a dubious distinction: It surpassed Russia as the world leader in imprisonment, with one in every 130 people living behind bars. The U.S. prison population has soared above 2 million, and most of those inmates are locked up for nonviolent crimes.

Young people are always attracted to the part of Marx which demands that capitalism live up to its potential. It's not hard for them to understand the theory of surplus value or why workers get ripped off.