Today's Shocks Are Tomorrow's Conventions.

The Rare, Delicate Flavor Of A Life After Retiring In One's Sixties, Whatever One Has "retired" From, The Pleasure I Experienced Beyond My Job At Columbia, Is A Gift Of Life In The Last Decades. But It Is Not Easily Learned. . . . But Sometimes, The Only Way To Live Is To Get Out, Or At Least Seriously To Contemplate Getting Out, Doing The Impossible,flinging The Conventional Tea.

As Long As Women Are Isolated One From The Other, Not Allowed To Offer Other Women The Most Personal Accounts Of Their Lives, They Will Not Be Part Of Any Narratives Of Their Own…women Will Be Staving Off Destiny And Not Inviting Or Inventing Or Controlling It.

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

Ironically, Women Who Acquire Power Are More Likely To Be Criticized For It Than Are The Men Who Have Always Had It.

Quoting, Like Smoking, ... Is A Dirty Habit To Which I Am Devoted. But Then ... I Am A Professor Of English Literature; It Is An Occupational Hazard.