Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.

If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.

The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops - in general, doing everything men do.

Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.

What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?

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.

A man assumes that a woman's refusal is just part of a game. Or, at any rate, a lot of men assume that. When a man says no, it's no. When a woman says no, it's yes, or at least maybe. There is even a joke to that effect. And little by little, women begin to believe in this view of themselves.