Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor.

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.

Marriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but it magnified the bad things, so they came to feel as painful as a grain in one's eye. An open window, a forgotten quart of milk, a TV set left blaring, socks on the bathroom floor could become occasions for incredible rage.