Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.

Solitude is un-American.

Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.

Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation. Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved...Freedom is...not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.