A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women…

Marriage, in short, is a bargain, like buying a house or entering a profession. One chooses it knowing that, by that very decision, one is abnegating other possibilities. In choosing companionship over passion, women like...

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.