It's smart to be friends with one's sex partner but dumb to have sex with one's friends.

It angers me that sick people have to wait for everything and everybody - doctors, nurses, callbacks, lab results, prescriptions, medications, technicians, treatment rooms. If illness is the embodiment of powerlessness, which, believe me, is true, then waiting is its temporal incarnation.

I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.

What I often say to people who are quick to say I’m not a feminist is if you think you’re not a feminist, give it all back.

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything?