Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.

I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

no one had experiences any more, only traumas.

I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.

It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.