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.

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The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken...

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken...

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

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

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

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...

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are...

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.

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

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

We in middle age require adventure.

We in middle age require adventure.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat...

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat...

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.