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

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

Sexuality is the great field of battle between biology and society.

Oh, I know all about my mother and me,' you may say. 'All that business with my mother was over years ago.' You don't and it wasn't.