Menopause. A pause while you reconsider men.

My favorite author's question of all time - because it's so simple to answer ... 'Is your hair really like that, or do you get it done?

We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on. We'll spy relentlessly on the dead; we'll open their letters, we'll read their journals, we'll go through their trash, hoping for a hint, a final word, an explanation, from those who have deserted us--who've left us holding the bag, which is often a good deal emptier than we'd supposed.

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Men and women are not "equal" if "equal" means "exactly the same." Our many puzzlements and indeed unhappinesses come from trying to figure out what the differences really mean, or should mean, or should not mean.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.