Nature Can Seem Cruel, But She Balances

Attempts To Limit Female Mobility By Hampering Locomotion Are Ancient And Almost Universal. The Foot-binding Of Upper-class Chinese Girls And The Nigerian Custom Of Loading Women's Legs With Pounds Of Heavy Brass Wire Are Extreme Examples, But All Over The World Similar Stratagems Have Been Employed To Make Sure That Once You Have Caught A Woman She Cannot Run Away, And Even If She Stays Around She Cannot Keep Up With You. ... Literally As Well As Figuratively Modern Women's Shoes Are What Keeps Samantha From Running As Fast As Sammy.

The Great Subversive Works Of Children's Literature Suggest That There Are Other Views Of Human Life Besides Those Of The Shopping Mall And The Corporation. They Mock Current Assumptions And Express The Imaginative, Unconventional, Noncommercial View Of The World In Its Simplest And Purest Form. They Appeal To The Imaginative, Questioning, Rebellious Child Within All Of Us, Renew Our Instinctive Energy, And Act As A Force For Change. This Is Why Such Literature Is Worthy Of Our Attention And Will Endure Long After More Conventional Tales Have Been Forgotten.

You Get Into The Habit Of Being Angry And Hurt By Life, And Then When Something Good Happens You Can't Accept It Because It Doesn't Fit The Pattern.

The Fashion Pages Of Magazines Such As Cosmopolitan Now Seem To Specialize In Telling The Career Girl What To Wear To Charm The Particular Wrong Type Of Man Who Reads Playboy, While The Editorial Pages Tell Her How To Cope With The Resulting Psychic Damage.

Nature Can Seem Cruel, But She Balances Her Books.