Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?

No sex is better than bad sex.

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

Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.

As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.

Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.