Don't read a book out of its right time for you.

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.

Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.

You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.

Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.

Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.