On the Upper East Side, women are prisoners to the ideology of intensive motherhood, which is that you should be enriching your child's well-being on…

- Wednesday Martin

I'm a primate, you know? I need to be pro-social, like all of us; I need to be pro-social and affiliative. I need to sit at the campfire with other w…

- Wednesday Martin

It's possible to be a woman married to a very wealthy, powerful man but to be relatively disempowered. Not just relative to him, relative to a middle…

- Wednesday Martin

I feel that rich women are soft targets.... There's a lot of legitimate resentment and anger about inequality in our culture, about money... I feel l…

- Wednesday Martin

I think the most relative thing is that women in a way that I think people haven't given us credit for, want to return to this idea about equality in…

- Wednesday Martin

Women are looking out for other women and their children. There are some great nannies, and there are some horrible nannies. And I don't blame indivi…

- Wednesday Martin

This is a culture of female display. And the reason it's a culture of female display is that on the Upper East Side women far outnumber men, if you d…

- Wednesday Martin

If you're trying to forge bonds on something other than kinship, and forge a tribal identity on something other than relatedness, conformity is a goo…

- Wednesday Martin