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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]

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

The Married Are Those Who Have Taken The Terrible Risk Of Intimacy And, Having Taken It, Know Life Without Intimacy To Be Impossible.

The Compulsion To Find A Lover And Husband In A Single Person Has Doomed More Women To Misery Than Any Other Illusion.

A Literary Academic Can No More Pass A Bookstore Than An Alcoholic Can Pass A Bar.