Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.

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

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

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.

. . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.

Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.