Little Tamar, forget the long ago. We are here and we are now, and that is all. We are making a new start.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.

What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.

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.

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