... chastity is not given once and for all like a wedding ring that is put on never to be taken off, but is a garden which each day must be weeded, watered, and trimmed anew, or soon there will be only brambles and wilderness.

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.

And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express what the forms were never intended to express (and may very well operate to conceal).

Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.

There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.

When one culture has the big guns and the other has none, there is a certain predictablity about the outcome.

Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.