The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

In our patriarchal world, we are all taught - whether we like to think we are or not - that God, being male, values maleness much more than he values femaleness... that in order to propitiate God, women must propitiate men.

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.

Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission.