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.

Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require "educational practices and socializing agents" even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood.

My knees have always been ugly.

Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.

When I was a young hippy, I thought marching naked would be a strong protest, but I don't think it would be as effective now.