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"Children of controlling families aren't trained to act in their own best interests; they're trained to serve and take care of their parents."

"A profound sense of powerlessness and rage always drives revolutionary movements, often to the point of their destruction."

Brilliant not just in its portrayal of women's issues, but the way it nails down the triumph, turmoil and petty squabbling of a radical movement.

"Our choice... is to prepare for the gift and the problems it will bring. We can choose to get better at anticipating these inevitable surges. We can choose to educate ourselves and our children to become intelligently literate and wise in their employment. And we can choose to modify our legal and political and economic assumptions to meet the ordained trajectories ahead. But we cannot escape from them."

"Our choice... is to prepare for the gift and the problems it will bring. We can choose to get better at anticipating these inevitable surges. We can choose to educate ourselves and our children to become intelligently literate and wise in their employment. And we can choose to modify our legal and political and economic assumptions to meet the ordained trajectories ahead. But we cannot escape from them."

Civ V meets this book. Wow! Fascinating, but I'm too lazy to explain here.

This book is interesting as a thesis, but built so much on a certain self-evident view of history that (for me) it can be a trudge of "Yeah, we know this already. "

Done. Comments to follow.