“Woman" is not a derogative word. I am always a woman, but there are time when I choose to sit without holding my knees together.”

“A friend. A companion. A beautiful, passionate lover to spend the days and nights with. A woman to carry my children, a partner to share the triumphs and failures. A woman I can share my dreams with, and who will share hers with me. A woman who I can comfort and hold in times of need, and who will hold me when I am weak , and sorrowful, and in need of the sort of succor only a wife can give her husband. A woman who I so desperately want to make love to. You, Lucy, you are that woman.”

“I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.”

“I am a woman and my business is to hold things together.My business is to tear them apart.”

“Do you see, Solange, that you are the only woman in my world? The one woman who can choose life or death for me. You are the center of my world and you always will be. When I tell you that your pleasure is mine, I mean that literally”

“I am a whore," she said. "And in addition to that, I am not a nice woman. But despite these facts, my word is gold.”