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If Intelligence Were A Television Set, It Would Be An Early Black-and-white Model With Poor Reception, So That Much Of The Picture Was Gray And The Figures On The Screen Were Snowy And Indistinct. You Could Fiddle With The Knobs All You Wanted, But Unless You Were Careful, What You Would See Often Depended More On What You Expected Or Hoped To See Than On What Was Really There.

Don't Make Me Into This Airy-fairy, Moralist, Idealist Because I'm Not.

I Don't Actually Believe In A Clash Of Civilizations. I Believe In A Clash Of The Civilized And The Noncivilized.

So There Really Was A Whole Series Of Things That Took The Women Of My Generation A Little Bit Of Time To Push Forward.

My Parents Were Of The Generation Who Thought They Were The Children Of A Free Czechoslovakia, The Only Democracy In Central Europe.