I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.

...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not. It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests ... Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did.

for real pleasure a pleasure resort should have no one in it but its legitimate inhabitants, oneself, and perhaps one's friends.

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.