Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.
The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.
The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.