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

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

Power is the ability not to have to please.

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

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

Can one consider controversy without falling into it?

we expect definitions to tell us not only what is, but what to do about it; to show us how the world fits together and how its different parts connect and work. ... A label is the first step toward action.