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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."
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"The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible."

"To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice."

"Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed."

"Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it."
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