Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.

Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?

Courage is the only Magic worth having.

I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.

The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.

the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.

Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.