A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part of any narratives of their own…women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it.

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

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

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.

Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.