maturity ... is letting things happen.
Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.
Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part of any narratives of their own…women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it.
one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.
... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.