We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.

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

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.

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

Trust is the bedrock of intimacy

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

Money glitters, beauty sparkles, and intelligence shines.

There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.

Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

The best way to have peace is to always be prepared to fight a way.

But in proverbe I have herde say,That who that wel his werk beginneth,The rather a good end he winneth.

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.