Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

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.

Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?

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

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

Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.

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.