Sex is God's joke on the human race ... if we didn't have sex to make us ridiculous, She would have had to think up something else instead.

In loving life you love what can't survive.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.

I think we’re [men and women] more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.

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.

I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.