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Horizontal Hostility May Be Expressed In Sibling Rivalry Or In Competitive Dueling Which Wrecks Not Only Office Tranquility Or Suburban Domesticity But Also Some Radical Political Groups And, It Must Be Sadly Said, Some Women's Liberation Groups. ... [it Is] Misdirected Anger That Rightly Should Be Focused On The External Causes Of Oppression.

A Liberation Struggle Is Like A Struggle Against Dirt. No Matter What Type Of Bath You Takein Three Weeks You'll Smell Like You've Never Seen A Bathtub. What We Don't Understand About A Liberation Struggle Is You Never Win It, Any More Than You "win" Clean Dishes. As Soon As You Eat On Them, The Dishes Are Dirty Again.

There's No Way That I Know Of To Avoid Pain Absolutely, But Suffering Is The Interpretation We Choose To Place On The Pain We Encounter.

Unless You Are Political Or Intellectual, Events Like The Depression Are Seen As Personal Events. We Thought Of The Depression As Something That Made The Pipes Freeze; We Thought It Hit Us Because Daddy Didn't Move His Taxi Stand And Because He Broke His Hip. It Was Only Later I Found Out It Was A National Phenomenon.

I Think We Should Look Forward To Death More Than We Do. Of Course Everybody Hates To Go To Bed Or Miss Anything, But Dying Is Really The Only Chance We'll Get To Rest.