Upon Becoming Fifty The One Thing You

Most Full Lives Are Filled With Empty Gestures.

Male Friends Do Not Always Face Each Other; They Stand Side By Side, Facing The World.

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]

Power Is The Ability To Take One's Place In Whatever Discourse Is Essential To Action And The Right To Have One's Part Matter.

Thinking About Profound Social Change, Conservatives Always Expect Disaster, While Revolutionaries Confidently Anticipate Utopia. Both Are Wrong.