Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.
In life nothing goes on for ever, even if it looks exactly as if it would.
On the whole, life is unfair in the way it works out. It is a game played without an umpire!
Youth deals only in extremes.
Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to those lower is nearly always invisible, that is, unnoticed. When it is noticed, it is fully rationalized. Violence done by those lower on the hierarchy to those higher is unthinkable, and when it does occur is regarded with shock, horror, and the fetishization of the victims.
I don't want to overstate the gender difference. But women are more sensitized to the way that larger issues affect their pocketbooks, like pay equality or cost of living changes.
How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!. . . He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.
If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.