Humor Is An Antidote To Isolation.

Myth, Legend, And Ritual ... Function To Maintain A Status Quo. That Makes Them Singularly Bad In Coping With Change, Indeed Counterproductive, For Change Is The Enemy Of Myth.

We Are In A Double Bind. We Are Expected To Feel Inferior Not Only As Women, But Because We Are Old.

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.

The Common Impulse Is Not To Sustain A Marriage By Finding Satisfaction Elsewhere, But To End The Marriage And Set Up A New One Which Will Provide The Comfort Lacking In The First.

Though We Do Not Have Many Poets, We Certainly Have More Than We Deserve, For We Deserve None At All. It Is Ourselves That We Are Hurting By Our Stupidity And Ignorance Of Poetry.