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.

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.

a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.

Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

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

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.