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Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.


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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.



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Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.



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Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.



That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.



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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.



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The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.



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The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.



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The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.



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Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.





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