A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female human being who knows that a month has thirty day, not twenty-five, and who can spend every one of them free of the shackles of that defect of body and mind known as femininity.

There is more sexism in a year's worth of movies than actually exists in a woman's entire lifetime.

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the rivers of deserved obscurity for third-rate neurotics.

When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown" refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.