Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.

Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.

Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function. Feminism is really the right of women to be human beings. That's it, yet that's so frightening to a lot of people. A full human being wants satisfying work and love. A full human being is entitled to both, and is not simply defined by only one aspect of her being.

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.