The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.

Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.

Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill to the glamour and the power of secret knowledge, partly detoxified but also heightened by being shared.

The cliché that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.

It gives me great pleasure to welcome these outstanding leaders in their fields in this, the Academy's 225th year, ... Fellows are selected through a highly competitive process that recognizes individuals who have made preeminent contributions to their disciplines and to society at large.