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.

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that we are hurting by our stupidity and ignorance of poetry.

If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

those who despair of life are not long for it.

The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.