Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.

Proposition one: time is a man, space is a woman.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things as long as, just as long as, the movie lasted, and then all would all vanish.

And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.