My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.

We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.

The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.

Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.

The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

Conflict is the soul of literature.

I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.