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.

One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.

We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if I get this work accepted, if I get this job" -- there always seems to loom the possibility of something being over, settled, sweeping clear the way for contentment. This is the delusion of a passive life. When the hope for closure is abandoned, when there is an end to fantasy, adventure for women will begin.

Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.

The journey is over. Love to all.