Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half was alchemized into gold when the austere bluestocking became the fallen woman.

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

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.

a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance that can support both together and each individually.

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

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.