One act of violence takes four generations to heal.

The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.

An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.

The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).

So whatever you want to do, just do it... Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.

The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.