Once a writer has published a book, it belongs to its readers. - Alix Kates Shulman

each generation can do no more than add its bit to the endless river of consciousness and change, and that's about as good as it gets.

By the early 1980s the explosive phase of the movement was over, at least for the time being-explosive and quiescent phases having alternated for several hundred years. Yet throughout that decade and the following, the ideas advanced by the movement were so warmly embraced by the mainstream that their very success sparked an organized, sometimes virulent backlash (including widespread bombings of abortion clinics and torture of gays), producing what became known as the culture wars.

Advocates, no matter how old, face forward and upward toward the light; funerals can only momentarily divert them.