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

I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.

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

After sex, men fear too much intimacy; they want to separate again. Women want to talk, to continue the merging, melting fusion into one. Postcoital conversations keep the woman's power alive. Through unconscious severance, by falling asleep, the man regains his self.

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.

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.