A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

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.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

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.

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.