In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the husband's fetishistic delectation. At the same time, babies were segregated, put into cold beds alone and not picked up if they cried.

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

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.

If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.