Solutions to problems often depend upon how they're defined.

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship. Even protectiveness and benevolence toward the poor, toward minorities, and especially toward women have involved equating them with children.