We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

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.

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

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

Humor is an antidote to isolation.

How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want to challenge are built into those means? Science and new technology today like to declare that they encourage 'lateral thinking,' new ways of seeing and putting data together - but all systems have an inbuilt resistance to what has not been programmed into them through the premises on which their rules are based.