Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or ch...ange occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have every characteristic of a night person--a distaste for bosses, a hatred of the expected, an obsession with gaining an ultim...ately nonexistent freedom--every quality except one. I can't stay awake after a while. I fall asleep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago..., that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a universe that is all gradations of matter, from gross to fine to finer, so that we end up with everything we are composed of ...in a lattice, a grid, a mesh, a mist, where particles or movements so small we cannot observe them are held in a strict and accurate web, that is nevertheless nonexistent to the eyes we use for ordinary living--in this system of fine and finer, where then is the substance of a thought?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mothers often take children's negative feelings so personally that the moment they come back from work to a moody child, a whole c...hecklist appears before their eyes. "Was I rushed this morning? Did I forget to pack lunch right? Am I away too much?" This personalization of children's day to day moods (which I've found practically nonexistent in fathers) makes moms an easy target.... Within seconds, children pick up on your guilt and use it to gain special attention.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New Hampshire has always been cheap, mean, rural, small-minded, and reactionary. It's one of the few states in the nation with nei...ther a sales tax nor an income tax. Social services are totally inadequate there, it ranks at the bottom in state aid to education--the state is literally shaped like a dunce cap--and its medical assistance program is virtually nonexistent. Expecting aid for the poor there is like looking for an egg under a basilisk.... The state encourages skinflints, cheapskates, shutwallets, and pinched little joykillers who move there as a tax refuge to save money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »