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

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

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

Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.

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

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.

Sex for many has become a sorry business, a mechanical release involving neither discovery nor triumph, stressing human isolation more dishearte-ingly than ever before.