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.

those who despair of life are not long for it.

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

Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for too long as a profound connection between human beings.

If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.

Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.

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.