The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.

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

I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.

If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness of male drive the aggressive society will run to its lunatic extremes at ever-escalating speed. Who will safeguard the despised animal faculties of compassion, empathy, innocence and sensuality?