Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag...

Laughter is by definition healthy.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.

For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integrity is the orgasm. That is something I haven't any control over.