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.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

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.

Do women dress for men or women? I’ve always wondered why that eternally provocative question is put in terms of approval - as if the heart of the matter, the answer, were indeed a question of approval by either sex. But the question is never satisfactorily answered because it is incorrectly posed. It’s disapproval, the fear of it, that motivates most women, and with disapproval it doesn’t matter where it comes from.

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

In a baby's first months, the earliest patterns of intimacy or distrust are forever grooved into his soul.

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