“A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.”

“Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood.”

“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.”

“Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.”

“Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.”

“Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”

“I do not like to write - I like to have written.”