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.

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

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.

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

The older I get...the more of my mother I see in myself.

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

Sexuality is the great field of battle between biology and society.