Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest of the world must belong to someone else and, therefore, in default of God, to men.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

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.

a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.

Can one consider controversy without falling into it?

Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.

Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.