Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.

I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.

The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.

To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.