By identifying with the powerful, the disempowered achieve a measure of safety, at least for a moment. By doing the bidding of those in power, they b…

- Lillian B. Rubin

For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insul…

- Lillian B. Rubin

Children crawl before they walk, walk before they run--each generally a precondition for the other. And with each step they take toward more independ…

- Lillian B. Rubin

We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks.

- Lillian B. Rubin

The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next.

- Lillian B. Rubin

Women find ways to give sense and meaning to daily life--ways to be useful in the community, to keep mind active and soul growingeven while they chan…

- Lillian B. Rubin

Interesting, isn't it, that even though more than two and a half decades have passed since the sexual revolution brought women a new measure of sexua…

- Lillian B. Rubin

No revolution creates a wholly new universe. Rather, it reflects the history and culture that spawned it.

- Lillian B. Rubin

Whatever else we may say about sex, it is at least as much a social and psychological phenomenon as it is a biological one.

- Lillian B. Rubin