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.

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

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

Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

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

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.