I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw

What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.

An education not founded on Art will never succeed.

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.

I think the important thing about sisters is that they share the same minute, familiar life-style, the same little sets of rules. Therefore they can keep house with each other late in life, because they share the same bunch of housewifely prejudices. The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.

Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation.