The politics of the family are the politics of a nation. Just as the authoritarian family is the authoritarian state in microcosm,... the democratic family is the best training ground for life in a democracy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set... so deeply within the larger context of human affairs that it serves as a charged microcosm of the variety of attitudes and values to which culture subscribes. Among other things, it may serve as a model of sexual politics on an individual or personal plane.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist ec...onomy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom.... Goodbye to all that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such a...s power, intimacy, autonomy, trust, and communication skills are vital parts underlying how we live in the world. To change the world is to change the family.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The small Midwestern town achieves its legendary dullness by a process akin to evaporation--all the warm and energetic particles d...epart for coastal cities, leaving their place of origin colder and flatter than they found it. But the restless spirit in a small town knows he lives in the sticks and has a limited range of experience, while his suburban counterpart can sustain an illusion of cosmopolitanism in an environment which is far more constricted (a small town is a microcosm, a suburb merely a layer).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bar is the male kingdom. For centuries it was the bastion of male privilege, the gathering place for men away from their women..., a place where men could go to freely indulge in The Bull Session ... the release of the guilty anxiety of the oppressor class.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me ...about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »