The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.

A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too.

I was surprised by my daughter's generation and how they were rebelling against the '70s idea that sex was perfect and it should be sought.