Sometimes I dislike women I dislike us all because of our capacity for not thinking when it suits us... - Doris Lessing

This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.

We are all creatures of the stars and their forces, they make us, we make them, we are part of a dance from which we by no means and not ever may consider ourselves separate. But when the Gods explode, or err, or dissolve into flying clouds of gas, or shrink, or expand, or whatever else their fates might demand, then the minuscule items of their substance may in their small ways express — not protest, which of course is inappropriate to their station in life — but an acknowledgement of the existence of irony: yes, they may sometimes allow themselves — always with respect — the mildest possible grimace of irony.

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.