Everyone Likes To Talk Shop, Which Is

Ideas Move Fast When Their Time Comes.

A Literary Academic Can No More Pass A Bookstore Than An Alcoholic Can Pass A Bar.

Normal Is Absolutely My Least Favorite Word.

Androgyny Suggests A Spirit Of Reconciliation Between The Sexes; It Suggests, Further, A Full Range Of Experience…it Suggests A Spectrum Upon Which Human Beings Choose Their Places Without Regard To Propriety Or Custom.

Women, I Believe, Search For Fellow Beings Who Have Faced Similar Struggles, Conveyed Them In Ways A Reader Can Transform Into Her Own Life, Confirmed Desires The Reader Had Hardly Acknowledge-desires That Now Seem Possible. Women Catch Courage From The Women Whose Lives And Writings They Read, And Women Call The Bearer Of That Courage Friend. [p. 138]