There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

any appearance of impropriety.

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.

We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival.

A society that has made ''nostalgia'' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.