It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.

Sex is more fun than cars but cars refuel quicker than men.

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.

We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.