I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just decided I didn't want to be an academic.

I'm against suppression of pornography. If you suppress guns - yes; if you want to suppress poverty - yes. These are the obscenities, the real brutalization of people. I am almost more outraged by ads for blue jeans or cars that sort of blatantly depict women not only as sex objects, but women that look younger than the age of consent, looking like they've just been raped or asking to be raped-utterly passive sex objects.

Women today have choices and demand choices, choices to have kids or not and the reproductive technology thereto. And it is a fact [that] most women continue to chose to have children.

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be.

If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.

Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.