Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.

My knees have always been ugly.

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

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.

Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back; lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The bitter animosity and obscenity of divorce is unknown where individuals have not become Siamese twins.