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

We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.

I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.

The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We simultaneously possess the most primitive of brain stems and the most sophisticated of cortices. The imperatives of each coexist uneasily.

I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.

Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.