“The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.”

“It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.”

“The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.”

“A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.”

“When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.”

“It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.”

“Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.”

“The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.”

“Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.”

“The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.”

“The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.”

“The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.”

“The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.”

“The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.”

“Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.”