Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.

I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.

Courage is the only Magic worth having.

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

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

I knew I was in England by the smell.

Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.