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

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

Rarely is it possible to study all of the instructions to a game before beginning to play, or to memorize the manual before turning on the computer. The excitement of improvisation lies not only in the risk of being involved but in the new ideas, as heady as the adrenaline of performance, that seems to come from nowhere.

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

The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

The caretaking has to be done. "Somebody's got to be the mommy." Individually, we underestimate this need, and as a society we make inadequate provision for it. Women take up the slack, making the need invisible as we step in to fill it.