Nature Can Seem Cruel, But She Balances

Attempts To Limit Female Mobility By Hampering Locomotion Are Ancient And Almost Universal. The Foot-binding Of Upper-class Chinese Girls And The Nigerian Custom Of Loading Women's Legs With Pounds Of Heavy Brass Wire Are Extreme Examples, But All Over The World Similar Stratagems Have Been Employed To Make Sure That Once You Have Caught A Woman She Cannot Run Away, And Even If She Stays Around She Cannot Keep Up With You. ... Literally As Well As Figuratively Modern Women's Shoes Are What Keeps Samantha From Running As Fast As Sammy.

In A Sense Much Great Literature Is Subversive, Since Its Very Existence Implies That What Matters Is Art, Imagination, And Truth. In What We Call The Real World, On The Other Hand, What Usually Counts Is Money, Power, And Public Success.

Grosvenor And Burke Suggest That Continually, Though Silently, A School Building Tells Students Who They Are And How They Should Think About The World. It Can Help To Manufacture Rote Obedience Or Independent Activity; It Can Create High Self-confidence Or Low Self-esteem.

There's A Rule, I Think. You Get What You Want In Life, But Not Your Second Choice Too.

The Fashion Industry Is No More Able To Preserve A Style That Men And Women Have Decided To Abandon Than To Introduce One They Do Not Choose To Accept.