Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.

There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.

Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.