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

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

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.

What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.

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.