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

There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.

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.

The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.

The mammary fixation is the most American of the sex fetishes.