Those Who Despair Of Life Are Not

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.

Man's World' And 'woman's Place' Have Confronted Each Other Since Scylla First Faced Charybdis. ... If Women Have Only A Place, Clearly The Rest Of The World Must Belong To Someone Else And, Therefore, In Default Of God, To Men.

Today, What Most People Live In, Or With, Is The Less-than-nuclear Family. Working Fathers Are Absent From Home During Most Of The Day, The Children Are Schooled Outside It, And Practically All Women Who Work For Money Must Go Outside To Earn Their Living.

This Is The Power Of The Powerful To Define, To Structure, To Say, 'this Is The Way The World Works.' It's Enormous Power. Among The Powers Of The Weak, I Think The First One Is The Power Not To Believe The Powerful.

Growing Up Human Is Uniquely A Matter Of Social Relations Rather Than Biology. What We Learn From Connections Within The Family Takes The Place Of Instincts That Program The Behavior Of Animals; Which Raises The Question, How Good Are These Connections?