I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.

The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour

Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.

The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.

What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

The noble calling to rule and subdue the earth in God’s name was perverted, as male and female tried to rule and subdue each other.

You have to know what you want to ever be able to have it.

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

You really don't need to study how to change a diaper. As a new mom, you learn pretty darn quickly!

Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.

(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind

That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia.

I'm not a rock star, I'm a rock bright-light.

I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.

The time for desperation is upon us. Let's play.