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

All men are rapists and that's all they are

I'd discovered you never know yourself until you're tested and that you don't even know you're being tested until afterwards, and that in fact there isn't anyone giving the test except yourself.

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

There's power to: and everyone should have that, but everyone doesn't. Power to play Bach, or tennis, or boccie if you like. And there's power over; and no one should have that, but people do.

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.

I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.