The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.

Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the day, the children are schooled outside it, and practically all women who work for money must go outside to earn their living.