31 quotes found
Writer · English · 1959
English writer (born 1959)
“Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism.... Worst of all, prostitution reinforces all the old dumb clichés about women's sexuality; that they are not built to enjoy sex and are little mor...”
“A good part — and definitely the most fun part — of being a feminist is about frightening men. American and Australian feminists have always known this, and absorbed it cheerfully into their act; o...”
“Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.”
“I got through the sexual side of my first marriage - for six years! - by pretending that my husband was my friend Peter York.”
“Will [Self] loomed over my second marriage, lurked throughout my very enjoyable six months of lesbianism, and has seen considerable active service in my rich and strange inner life over the years s...”
“We may be saddled with Bush and Blair, but you've got Prince Charles (a big friend of the Islamic world, probably because of its large number of feudal kingdoms and hardline attitude to uppity wome...”
“Cherie Blair can call herself a feminist all she likes, but any feminist worth her salt would have made a point of having a termination - on the NHS, naturally - when she got knocked up the last ti...”
“The only kind of socialist to be is a Stalinist, and the only kind of woman to be is a Bitch.”
“A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be with and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.”
“Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsi...”
“It has been said (by Shelley Winters) that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not - it's a visa, and it runs out fast.”
