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

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

Creeds and causal systems have argued with each other for millennia, and even so we and our ancestors have managed to live in a world of differing opinions. Philosophical disputes don't often affect the price of fish or wine.

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.

it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.

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

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