I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

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

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.

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.

People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they've contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demanded of them than they can easily take on.

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.