Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.

For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.

[On swingers:] They have gone from Puritanism into promiscuity without passing through sensuality.

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.

The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women’s inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour that merely to recognize it is to risk unravelling the entire fabric of civilization.