Harassment is about power — -the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate. - Michael Crichton

The trouble with this country,” he said, “is that the women have no guts.They’d rather slink off and have a dangerous, illegal operation performed than change the laws. The legislators are all men, and men don’t bear babies; they can afford to be moralistic.

Temporal provincials were convinced that the present was the only time that mattered, and that anything that had occurred earlier could be safely ignored.

The internal psychological pressure to make up a story, to explain the ruins before one's eyes, is powerful indeed.