Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.
All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life.
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.
Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.
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.