I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there. – Maureen Reagan
It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think. – René Descartes, Discourse on the Method, 1637 (translated)