Kathleen Parker

"We love to boast that we are a nation of immigrants — and we are. But theres a different sense of America among those who trace their bloodlines back through generations of sacrifice."

"Reality, after all, is what civilization attempts to mitigate."

"But more overt sexual aggression may be the product of something few will acknowledge, at least on the record: Resentment. Off the record, in dozens of interviews over a period of years, male soldiers and officers have confided that many men resent women because theyve been forced to pretend that women are equals, and men know theyre not."