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

The journey is over. Love to all.

Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.

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

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

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

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.