September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

For there is never any way to go but in.

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.

In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.

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.

Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.