We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Quotation and Originality,” Letters and Social Aims, 1876
I was a woman in a mans world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot. – Jeane Kirkpatrick