"Judging by the covers, women are hard to read." [Chuck Green, Denver Post, 11/8/98]

"It struck me recently, as I was in an airport newsstand, that what women really want isn't at all what they say they want."

"They say they want equality of the sexes, they say they want career opportunity, they say they want a wholesome family life, they say they want to be judged on the power of their minds rather than on their superficial beauty, they say that fat is OK. But that's not really what they want."

"Last week the leading women's magazines featured headlines of 47 different stories. Not one of them was about women's careers or the power of the female mind or the power of the corporate boardroom. Not one."

"Make no mistake about it, these magazines are big sellers. Welcome to an inside look at today's feminism."

"Personally, I found these articles to be disgusting."

"This just isn't the kind of stuff I expect when I open the mailbox and pull out the men's magazines that I subscribe to - publications like Consumer Reports, Smithsonian, Architectural Digest, and Scientific American."