Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

We still make love to organs and not people; that so far from realising that people are never more idiosyncratic, never more totally there when they make love, we re never more incommunicative, never more alone.

The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

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.

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.