If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.

Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.

If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.

Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

I like the company of men. I've never been welcome in those groups, but then I would no more go to a consciousness-raising group and talk about my intimate life with my husband than fly to the moon. I never understood all that.

All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life.