Human Beings Tend To Regard The Conventions

Most Higher Education Is Devoted To Affirming The Traditions And Origins Of An Existing Elite And Transmitting Them To New Members.

The Capacity To Combine Commitment With Skepticism Is Essential To Democracy.

In Many Ways, Constancy Is An Illusion.

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.

When Parents Die, All Of The Partings Of The Past Are Reevoked With The Realization That This Time They Will Not Return.