As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part of any narratives of their own…women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it.

You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

. . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.

Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.