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Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

Can one consider controversy without falling into it?

The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.

We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have.

Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.

If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

Reaction isn't action - that is, it isn't truly creative.

Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself ...

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

Humor is an antidote to isolation.

If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.

What society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

It is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.

Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now.

The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.

Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.

Those who despair of life are not long for it.

Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.

Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.

Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur ...

A problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.