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

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.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

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.

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.

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.

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

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.

Look at yourself, you’re old, too, but still doing your work. This is what we are, Philips. This is what we are.

Note to self-give serious thought to becoming an alcoholic.

Names have power... And he kept the one I gave him. My dear, sweet Jackaby. - Eleanor

My many years of living have not made the actions of teenage boys any less enigmatic.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Sometimes you have to search for inspiration with characters, and other times, they just drop out of the sky and arrive.

An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Whether you are launching a start-up or leading an established company, you should start establishing your social media presence if you haven’t already.

Technique is everything and we play a contact sport.