There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: were lifetime baby-making machines. Womens reproductive abilities start to wane when theyre as young as 35. Men? Were good to go pretty much till were dead. – Jeffrey Kluger
Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time. – Frederick Jackson Turner