Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.

Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.

My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.

Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.

I didn't believe in systems. Everything human was imperfect and ultimately absurd. What did I believe in then? In humor. In laughing at systems, at people, at one's self. In laughing even at one's need to laugh all the time. In seeing life as contradictory, many-sided, various, funny, tragic, and with moments of outrageous beauty. In seeing life as a fruitcake, including delicious plums and bad peanuts, but meant to be devoured hungrily all the same because you couldn't feast on the plums without also sometimes being poisoned by the peanuts.