It would take a helluva man to replace no man at all.

I think there was a long period of time when we got real invested in a youth culture, and not coincidentally it was when the baby boomers, who let's face it, take up a lot of space on the planet, were young.

The problem with freedom is that you just can't go back. Once people see what it means to be free people, you can't go back. So they're going to keep nattering on about this and that, and maybe they'll make another stab at de-funding the fabulous Planned Parenthood or something of the sort. To my mind, it's just not going to work.

the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.

I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I want to.

For many years, despite what I thought were really punitive decisions about women in the church, I stayed and stayed and stayed. I kept saying to myself, "The Catholic church is my church, and by God, I'm going to stay here, despite what the hierarchy does."

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.