It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over whenever they occurred. (Our teachers deplored this and added extra units about social history and protest movements, but that was still the message of the books.)

The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.

The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.

I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?

We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually.