“If any of us had heard the word "feminist" we would have thought it meant a girl who wore too much makeup, but we were, without knowing it, feminists ourselves, bound together by the freemasonry th...”

“No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street”

“A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female...”

“Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap.”

“Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.”

“In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells.”

“I am here to tell youWe are all of us just as mighty as planetsand you too,We'll let you in, we've got stalwart to spareBut you might have to sleep on the floor.”

“I am here to tell youWe are all of us just as mighty as planets—and you too,We'll let you in, we've got stalwart to spare—But you might have to sleep on the floor.”

“I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room.”

“I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.”