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

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

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...

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

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

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead,...

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead,...

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

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...

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.