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

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

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.

At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and "handsome is as handsome does," she was emerging as the central emblem of western art.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.