In the end I created a career of my own, concentrating on my writing and lecturing, reaching larger audiences than I would had I ended up with tenure and a full teaching load. It was Virginia Woolf who said that it is terrible to be frozen out of a sacred tradition-but even more terrible to be frozen into it.
5 MISCELLANY AND MEMORABILIA, Struggles in Academe: A Personal Account, p. 252 - Dirty truths (1996), first edition