All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.

Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

I'm passionately opposed to the nuclear family, with its mom and dad and their 2.4 children. I think it's the most neurotic life-style ever developed.

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