Science is a form of arrogance control.

Severe initiations increase a member's liking for the group.

Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.

Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular situation, you will capture differences. But the error lies in inferring that a snapshot is a lasting picture. What women and men do at a moment in time tells us nothing about what women and men are in some unvarying sense - or about what they can be.

The history of the women's movement in America follows a consciousness-amnesia cycle.

[Sexual] fantasies, like children, are most interesting to the people who have them.

The individualism of American life, to our glory and despair, creates anger and encourages its release; for when everything is possible, limitations are irksome. When the desires of the self come first, the needs of others are annoying. When we think we deserve it all, reaping only a portion can enrage.