The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

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

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

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 compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.