Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community...

I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up who you think you are, even who you had prided yourself on being. When all those around you say they simply don't recognize you any longer, that's the real compliment.

Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.

But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses

In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.

Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.