Creeds and causal systems have argued with each other for millennia, and even so we and our ancestors have managed to live in a world of differing opinions. Philosophical disputes don't often affect the price of fish or wine.

it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.

we expect definitions to tell us not only what is, but what to do about it; to show us how the world fits together and how its different parts connect and work. ... A label is the first step toward action.

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

Can one consider controversy without falling into it?