I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
Democracy is mob rule with income taxes.
The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.
So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.