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If History Is Really Relevant In Today's World, The Proposition Doesn't Command Much Respect. Perhaps The Past Is A Different Country, But If So No One Much Wants To Travel There.

How Can You Communicate Your Thoughts Or Demonstrate Your Hypotheses By Conventional Means When All The Values And Standards That You Want To Challenge Are Built Into Those Means? Science And New Technology Today Like To Declare That They Encourage 'lateral Thinking,' New Ways Of Seeing And Putting Data Together - But All Systems Have An Inbuilt Resistance To What Has Not Been Programmed Into Them Through The Premises On Which Their Rules Are Based.

I Admire People Who Are Suited To The Contemplative Life. They Can Sit Inside Themselves Like Honey In A Jar And Just Be.

The Idea Of Power As A Possession, Whose Asset Can Be Banked And Drawn On When Needed, Comes Easy To A Society Whose Rules Grow Out Of The Methods Of Finance Capitalism.

We Are In A Double Bind. We Are Expected To Feel Inferior Not Only As Women, But Because We Are Old.