I can live without it all / love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion

Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.

There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love

Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.