We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks. Lillian B. Rubin More Quotes by Lillian B. Rubin More Quotes From Lillian B. Rubin How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell of a woman--a woman in constant pain because her children no longer live under her roof? Is it possible that a notion so pervasive is, in fact, just a myth? Lillian B. Rubin persistence pain children For sex to be wholly satisfying, we must have at least as much concern for a partner as for self - a requirement that doesn't live comfortably alongside the exhortation to 'do your own thing.' In the end, we are left with an extraordinarily heightened set of expectations about the possibilities in human relationships that lives side by side with disillusion that, for many, borders on despair. Lillian B. Rubin self expectations sex The depth of a friendship - how much it means to us ... depends, at least in part, upon how many parts of ourselves a friend sees, shares and validates. Lillian B. Rubin depth friendship mean 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 psychological may sex The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo. Lillian B. Rubin structure design family
