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.

Go out and find your own stories.That is what I want to tell you.

If women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top.

The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.