It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

A garden is the best alternative therapy.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

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

The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their middle-class status. This is the real meaning of saving up to get married. The young couple struggles to set up an image of comfortable life which they will be forced to live up to in the years that follow.