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

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.

It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.

Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother

So far it has been assumed that the only pregnancies which are aborted are accidental ones and the only foetuses destroyed those whose mothers could not bear the thought of their becoming children. In a just world this would be the case, but the world is far from just. Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. Poverty has many faces; it may be the poverty of the young, the unmarried, the student, the unemployed, the female or a combination of these.

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