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The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes. ”
Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience. ”
Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused. ”
There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. ”
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy. ”
The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find. ”
Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master. ”