Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another quick scrutinizing glance from her friend: "They still define us in terms of relationships with men, even the best of them.

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

Intelligence forbids tears.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

I don't think San Francisco needs defending. I never meet anyone who doesn't love the place, Americans or others.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.