My mother was my first jealous lover.

Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

Weather creates character.

Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.

The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.