Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents- to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding ...her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am so tired of taking to others translating my life for the deaf, the blind,... the "I really want to know what your life is like without giving up any of my privileges to live it" white women the "I want to live my white life with Third World women's style and keep my skin class privileges" dykesLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've re...ally and truly arrived. Parity at last!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is ...what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel qu...ite sure of, to something precise, clear, definite, which by reflection and analysis we find is involved in the vague thing that we start from, and is, so to speak, the real truth of which that vague thing is a sort of shadow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »