Humor tells you where the trouble is.

Sometimes I feel like a sisterless child.

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

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.

I say you hurt me. You say I scorned you. We say we care. It begins. The conversation begins.

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

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