It's Hard To Be Happy, And Safe,

The Compulsion To Find A Lover And Husband In A Single Person Has Doomed More Women To Misery Than Any Other Illusion.

Power Is The Ability To Take One's Place In Whatever Discourse Is Essential To Action And The Right To Have One's Part Matter.

Maturity ... Is Letting Things Happen.

Androgyny Suggests A Spirit Of Reconciliation Between The Sexes.

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]