Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

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That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing -...

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing -...

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in...

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in...

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper...

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper...

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

I'm not a nice person.

I'm not a nice person.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else....

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else....

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband...

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband...

Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he...

Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he...

America is addicted to wars of distraction

America is addicted to wars of distraction

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but...

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but...

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around...

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around...

If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies...

If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies...

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash...

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash...

We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.

We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that...

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that...

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another...

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another...

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to...

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to...

That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the...

That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the...