“Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.”

“The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.”

“All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.”

“Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.”

“These bits speak history's tattered tale. How we cling to scraps, shards, sea glass- because we cannot stay.”

“You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.”

“Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture…Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.”