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.

... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.

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.

We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.

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

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.

maturity ... is letting things happen.