Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
The journey is over. Love to all.
... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.
Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.
To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.
maturity ... is letting things happen.
Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.
In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at Columbia, is a gift of life in the last decades. but it is not easily learned. . . . But sometimes, the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously to contemplate getting out, doing the impossible,flinging the conventional tea.
Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom.
One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.
Once you are thought selfish, not only are you forgiven a life designed mainly to suit yourself, which in anyone else would appear monstrous, but if an impulse to generosity should by chance overpower you, you will get five times the credit of some poor selfless soul who has been oozing kindness for years.
People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they've contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demanded of them than they can easily take on.
Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.
. . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.
Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.
Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world.
I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.
You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard.
Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half was alchemized into gold when the austere bluestocking became the fallen woman.
a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance that can support both together and each individually.
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