A Couple Of Years I Taught In

First Of All It's Usually Women Who Run These Higher Primate Sanctuaries, Rarely Men. They Are White. They Come From Privileged Backgrounds. They Are Educated.

Public Libraries Are The Sole Community Centers Left In America. The Degree To Which A Branch Of The Local Library Is Connected To The Larger Culture Is A Reflection Of The Degree To Which The Community Itself Is Connected To The Larger Culture.

One Of The Things I Have Tried To Do With This Book And With All Of Them Really Is Avoid That Simple, Easy, Reductionist View Of Motivation And To Show We Do Things For A Complex Net Of Reasons, A Real Braid Of Reasons.

Much More Than Memoir; It's History.

I'm Seventy-six Now. I'm At A Stage In My Life Where I Feel A Lot Of Affection And Regard For Women, And I Felt The Need To Make This Clear In Some Way. I Don't Know How They'll Feel When They Read It, But I Feel Okay About It.