One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

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

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

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.

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.

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.