Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.

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.

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.

Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.

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.

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.

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.