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

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.

Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.

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.

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

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