Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.

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.

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.

Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard.

Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the 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.