When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one's... own" refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a sound justification for most scientific activity is going to be found, it will eventually come perhaps from a recognition tha...t man's sense of curiosity about the world and himself is every bit as compelling as his need for clothing and food.... Making sense of the world and one's place in that world has roots deep within the human psyche.... We can drop the dangerous pretense that science is legitimate only in so far as it contributes to our material well-being or to our store of perennial truths. Viewed in this light, the repudiation of theoretical scientific inquiry is tantamount to a denial of what may be our most characteristically human trait.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most women of [the WW II] generation have but one image of good motherhood--the one their mothers embodied. . . . Anything done "f...or the sake of the children" justified, even ennobled the mother's role. Motherhood was tantamount to martyrdom during that unique era when children were gods. Those who appeared to put their own needs first were castigated and shunned--the ultimate damnation for a gender trained to be wholly dependent on the acceptance and praise of others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"... In truth I find it ridiculous that a man of his intelligence suffer over this type of person, who is not even interesting, fo...r she is said to be foolish", she added with all the wisdom of people who are not in love, who find that a sensible man should only be unhappy over a person who is worthwhile; it is almost tantamount to being surprised that anyone deign having cholera for having been infected with a creature as small as the vibrio bacilla.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »