Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

The kinds of good friends I have are people who are perfectly willing to have me say I'll see them in six months, and live right next door.

Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.