Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.

Men are actually the weaker sex.

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.