We in middle age require adventure.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

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

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.

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.

Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.

... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.