“We in middle age require adventure.” — Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

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.