What all the ads and whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if only you took proper care of your smells, your har, your boobs, your eyelashes, your armpits, your c...
When women have so absorbed the disease of sexism that they themselves can inflict it on each other, we clearly have a perfect, self-replenishing machine for the continuation of sexism. Unable to turn...
I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other being good to each other.
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
Solitude is un-American.
I don't believe what you believe," I yelled, "and I don't respect your beliefs and I don't respect you for holding them. If you can honestly make a statement like that about the power behind the thron...
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
she died of internal weeping
When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.
The ultimate sexist put-down: the prick which lies down on the job. The ultimate weapon in the war between the sexes: the limp prick. The banner of the enemy's encampment: the prick at half-mast. The...
And the trouble is if you don't risk anything you risk even more.
If every day I dare to remember that I am here on loan that this house this hillside these minutes are all leased to me not given I will never despair.
I tried to keep myself away from him by using con words like fidelity and adultery, by telling myself that he would interfere with my work, that I had him I'd be too happy to write. I tried to tell my...
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
I had gone to graduate school because I loved literature, but in graduate school you were not supposed to study literature. You were supposed to study criticism. Some professor wrote a book 'proving'...
We drove to the hotel and said goodbye. How hypocritical to go upstairs with a man you don't want to fuck, leave the one you do sitting there alone, and then, in a state of great excitement, fuck the...
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