"Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted."

"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."

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

"We in middle age require adventure."

"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."

"Ideas move rapidly when their time comes."

"You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care."

"Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions."

"Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate."

"Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it."