If the management of child bearing in our society had actually been intended to maximize stress, it could hardly have succeeded better. Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. Our whole lives are lived in a tangle of telling, not telling, misleading, allowing to know, concealing, eavesdropping and collusion. When Washington said he could not tell a lie, his father must have answered, 'You had better learn. Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more. There is no such thing as security. There never has been. Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.