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

Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world.

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

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.