No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral.

To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.

I believe there's a killer in all of us. I know there's one inside me. When you know the killer in you and you know also that you do not want to kill, you have to set yourself upon a course of learning. Not to kill that killer then, but to control it.

Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.

In sex one wants or does not want. And the grief, the sorrow of life is that one cannot make or coerce or persuade the wanting, cannot command it, cannot request it by mail order or finagle it through bureaucratic channels.

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.