Ann Douglas
Ann Douglas
becoming beforehand encounter foreign knowing parent taking trip
Becoming a parent is like taking a trip to a foreign country: you have no way of knowing beforehand what you'll encounter once you get there.
religious honesty duplicity
You have to be closer to religious origins -- the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew its theology and its varieties of religious experience. We are post-secular, inventing new faiths, without any sense of organizing truths. The truths we accept are so multiple that honesty becomes little more than a strategy by which you manage your tendencies toward duplicity.
earth-day stories storytelling
Human beings cannot live without stories.
rights progress culture
The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible.