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

There are many feminists who work in the media, and they think that feminism is very important. It is in their own lives, but mostly feminism has had an impact among privileged women in the advanced Western countries. For the most part, it hasn't begun to touch the lives of poor and working women in the Third World, and that distresses me.

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.

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now.

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

The older I get the more secrets I have, never to be revealed and this, I know, is a common condition of people my age. and why all this emphasis on kissing and telling? Kisses are the least of it.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.