Abortions are never seen as a positive thing, as any other operation to remedy a potentially life-ruining condition would.

When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.

I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.

And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human.

Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.

The problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose.

The people around you are mirrors, I think. You see yourself reflected in their eyes. If the mirror is true, and smooth, you see your true self. That’s how you learn who you are.

Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.

You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening.

You stop talking about things when you’ve worked them out. You’re no longer an observer but a participant. You’re too busy for this bullshit.

I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.

We all have a "Life Résumé" and regret should not be part of it. Those embarrassing FML moments are all considered experience.

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

I was always a believer in stamping on my opponent if I got him down, at Wimbledon or anywhere else. I never wanted to give him the chance to get up.

I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.

It is in bed that we learn to bear the inevitable. We are learning this all the time while we lie with our face turned to the wall thinking we are doing nothing.

No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff.

A pard-like spirit, beautiful and swift.

There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.

I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can.