No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."

I hope we don't have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion. The parity of women's health. It's very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.

My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.

of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.

biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.