Being alone for a woman is probably much more scary than for a man. I'm all for getting over our fears by facing them head-on.

I did not intend to be a writer. I first wanted to be a lawyer, like my father. Then I got bit by the bug of philosophy and wanted to be a philosophy professor. I went to graduate school and quickly discovered it was impossible for a woman in those days - this was the early fifties - to be a philosopher, so I gave that up.

I don't really think myself that sex work is necessarily more demeaning than other kinds of demeaning work.

When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound ways. You see time's relativity, death's necessity.

The world is abundant with food for us, and with everything we need, if only we just open our eyes. There's so much food that gets thrown out or never harvested.

There is still nothing like equality for women in jobs, in family. There's just an awareness that inequality is not acceptable.

Being alone for a woman is probably much more scary than for a man. I'm all for getting over our fears by facing them head-on.