... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.

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.

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

as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.

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.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.