At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

There's really a shortage of good freelance writers. ... There are a lot of talented people who are very erratic, so either they don't turn it in or they turn it in and it's rotten; it's amazing. Somebody who's even maybe not all that terrific but who is dependable, who will turn in a publishable piece more or less on time, can really do very well.

So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?

I'm not sure that it's up to me to sum up what I've done with it in the past. I'm not sure there's a way of knowing what we have done that is useful or important.

Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

There is always one true inner voice. Trust it.