As a profession, freelance writing is notoriously insecure. That's the first argument in its favor. For many reasons, a few of them rational, the thought of knowing exactly what next year's accomplishments, routine, income, and vacation will be - or even what time I have to get up tomorrow morning - has always depressed me.

I'd just begun to be taken seriously as a freelance writer, but after the Playboy article, I mostly got requests to go underground in some other semi-sexual way. It was so bad that I returned an advance to turn the Playboy article into a paperback, even though I had to borrow the money.

Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.

Most women are one man away from welfare.

Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!