as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom.

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.

Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.

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.

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