He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.

I always remind myself that [ Jean-Paul] Sartre and [Simone] de Beauvoir didn't have children. And when you don't have children, it might be easier to believe that the child doesn't come with something.

I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle.

The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.

I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.

The lady was old, the lady was ill. It didn't matter what the lady believed.

Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.