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

We in middle age require adventure.

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.

the term 'androgyny' ... defines a condition under which the characteristics of the sexes, and the human impulses expressed by men and women, are not rigidly assigned. Androgyny seeks to liberate the individual from the confines of the appropriate.

Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.