What makes a Man love Death, Fanny? Is it because he hopes to avert his own by watchin' the Deaths of others? Doth he hope to devour Death by devourin' Executions with his Eyes? I'll ne'er understand it, if I live to be eight hundred Years. The Human Beast is more Beast than Human, 'tis true.

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

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.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!