North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the two... has been more peaceful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This program has helped me to keep physically healthy and to eat the right foods ... and that's really what the swimsuit competiti...on is about.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The purpose of ritual for men is to learn the rules of power and competition. Watching sports together, for example, they see the ...formal enactment of ritual, become loyal to a team, learn to conceal their vulnerability. The purpose of ritual for women (going to lunch together, sharing a favorite salon, etc.) is to learn how to make human connections. They are often more intimate and vulnerable with one another than they are with their men, and taking care of other women teaches them to take care of themselves. In these formal ways, men and women domesticate their emotional lives. But their strategies are different, their biological itineraries are different. His sperm needs to travel, her egg needs to settle down. It's astonishing that they survive happily at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... this dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming t...o pass all over the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Traditionally in American society, men have been trained for both competition and teamwork through sports, while women have been r...eared to merge their welfare with that of the family, with fewer opportunities for either independence or other team identifications, and fewer challenges to direct competition. In effect, women have been circumscribed within that unit where the benefit of one is most easily believed to be the benefit of all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You can't protect women without handicapping them in competition with men. If you demand equality you must accept equality. Women ...can't have it both ways.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All adults who care about a baby will naturally be in competition for that baby.... Each adult wishes that he or she could do each... job a bit more skillfully for the infant or small child than the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory gods... that a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but... rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named "fair competition" and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »