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Fantasy isn't something you run out of.

Sexuality is the great field of battle between biology and society.

All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life.

The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.

To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.

If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.

It's Friday; you ain't got no job ... you ain't got shit to do

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

Oh, I know all about my mother and me,' you may say. 'All that business with my mother was over years ago.' You don't and it wasn't.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.

Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.

To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.

Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired.

No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.