Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.

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

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.

Anger is really disappointed hope.

I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.

The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops - in general, doing everything men do.