“always…”

“If we have learned anything in the years of late twentieth-century feminism, it’s that ‘always’ blots out what we really need to know: When, where, and under what conditions has the statement been true?” (Adrienne Rich, “Notes Toward a Politics of Location,” qtd. in Lisa Ede, Situating Composition: Composition Studies and the Politics of Location 156, emphasis Ede’s)