Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

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.

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

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

Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.

The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed in the rhetoric of a civil right.

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.