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

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.

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

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.

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

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.