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.

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.

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.

To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.

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

Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.