Much female conversation is, in fact, about survival - but in code.

The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.

Humor tells you where the trouble is.

for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.

In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.

we perceive silence where, in fact, there is a muffler.

The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.