Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.
I never dared to be radical when young, For fear it would make me conservative when old.
I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.