My object is to live in a place that does not call itself 'the community with a heart.' I want one of those godforsaken towns where all the young people leave and the rest sit on the porch with a rifle across their knees.

Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.

A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.

Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the professions and use their virtues against them to bring about their destruction.

The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses.

The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth.

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.