Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they've contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demanded of them than they can easily take on.

What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.

We in middle age require adventure.