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.

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.

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

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom.

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

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.