You're not too fat; you're just in the wrong country.

If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.

If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.

But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.

People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.