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.

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

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.

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

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

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