those who despair of life are not long for it.

Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.

If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.

The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.

Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the day, the children are schooled outside it, and practically all women who work for money must go outside to earn their living.

what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.

Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.