The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.

Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.

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

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

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.

Power is the ability not to have to please.

The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.