Misogyny is the death of the heart.Collection: Heart
In an age in which greed and lust stalk the land like some Biblical plague, it is easy to view sex as just one more thing to be had. It is the mythos of moderns.Collection: Sex
sex is like sandwiches, there has to be something in between.Collection: Sex
I don't think a person should take herself seriously unless she is alone.Collection: Thinking
Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.Collection: Profound
Integrity pays, but not in cash.Collection: Integrity
a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.Collection: Knowledge
ladies are just those of us who have been silenced.Collection: Has Beens
When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.Collection: School
married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with.Collection: Loneliness
like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.Collection: Mother