Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don't know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.

O what is it about having one's own Babe upon one's Hip that makes a Woman wish to go home to her Mother? A Desire to say: 'Look, the Circle is compleat'? A Desire to say: 'Look, I have cross'd the Divide and now am more like you'? A Desire to say: 'Look, this Babe I offer you is my most precious Gift'?

If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.

Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.