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

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women want and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.

The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground.