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The article presents a reply of gratitude for the criticisms offered by sociologist Laura Sanchez on the works which appeared in the "Journal of Marriage and the Family." The authors are indebted to Laura Sanchez for taking their work (1995) seriously and raising some nontrivial questions for discussion. She has motivated them to reread their own paper closely and critically, and a close reading of many of the works she cites has broadened their familiarity with the feminist literatures. They know that there is no true reading of the paper. They know what they intended to say and what the paper says to them as they reread it. The authors also recognize that any text is only one part of a reading; what a reader sees in a text is also a function of what she brings to her encounter with the text. Some of Sanchez's critique reflects deficiencies in the text--things they did not say as well as they might have--and they are grateful for a chance to clarify ambiguities. Other feminist writers seem to corroborate their view of the central concerns of feminist scholarship.