power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a possibility to fear. That fear, I think, is one reason for the dark projections of a catastrophic future that are so widespread, in our dual society. The present powerful, being committed to polarization, expect that any new deal will overturn the one that set them in authority; that the last shall be first and the first last, role reversal everywhere, men as slaves, women as masters, in a revolution of contradiction.

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

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.

If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.

Humor is an antidote to isolation.

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

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