We In Middle Age Require Adventure.

Most Full Lives Are Filled With Empty Gestures.

Ardent, Intelligent, Sweet, Sensitive, Cultivated, Erudite. These Are The Adjectives Of Praise In An Androgynous World. Those Who Consider Them Epithets Of Shame Or Folly Ought Not To Be Trusted With Leadership, For They Will Be Men Hot For Power And Revenge, Certain Of Right And Wrong.

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]

In Former Days, Everyone Found The Assumption Of Innocence So Easy; Today We Find Fatally Easy The Assumption Of Guilt.

You Can Flush My Ashes Down The Toilet, For All I Care.