If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

The human species is forever in a state of change, forever becoming.

Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.