Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts …

The male sense of space must differ from that of the female, who has such interesting, active, and significant inner space. The space that interests men is out…

For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do-they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.