“People don't change or improve much, but they do evolve. It is very slow.”

—  Martin Amis

"Political Correctness: Robert Bly and Philip Larkin" (1997)
Context: Feminists have often claimed a moral equivalence for sexual and racial prejudice. There are certain affinities and one or two of these affinities are mildly and paradoxically encouraging. Sexism is like racism: we all feel such impulses. Our parents feel them more strongly than we feel them; our children, we trust, will feel them less strongly than we feel them. People don't change or improve much, but they do evolve. It is very slow.

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