The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.

Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.

I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.

Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.

I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.