A housewife's work has no results: it simply has to be done again. Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought up or not.

If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you sick, you've got a long way to go, baby.

The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.

...the consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.

Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women.

Men are the enemy in much the same way that some crazed boy in uniform was the enemy of another like him in most respects except the uniform. One possible tactic is to try to get the uniforms off.

Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every day the initial mistake of sacrificing their personal responsibility for themselves.

It is agreed that 'girls take more bringing up' than boys: what that really means is that girls must be more relentlessly supervised and repressed if the desired result is to ensue.

It is impossible to avoid failures in life. Don't be afraid of them. Consider rather how to learn from your own failures.

It was too lonely to be heaven, and there wouldn't be stars in hell.

Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important

Religion is insanity by consensus.

Human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to God but God's means of manifesting himself to us.

Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon.

Of all things, I do like a Conspiracy! It's so interesting!

There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.

As an actor, you act in order to make a living. Then, when you can make a living, you start acting because you want to do what you love to do. I need to remind myself of that a lot.