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• We in middle age require adventure.
• Ideas move fast when their time comes.
• That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
• Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
• Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half…
• You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
• Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.
• The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be…
• Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.
• I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's…
• Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of…
• As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their…

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