. . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.

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.

a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance that can support both together and each individually.

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.

Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom.

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.