When you start having lunch and actually eating, it's already over.

How could one create life with someone who represented death?

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes.

Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.

Love is love, but marriage is an investment.

I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.