“Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.”

Keeping a journal implies hope.

As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.

People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.

I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.

The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.

Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.

Courage is the only Magic worth having.

Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.

Is perception equivalent to existence?

Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?

It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.

Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?

Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.

As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

Let’s not forget, art can sell. You ain’t gotta front all the time on your records.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

There’s no image we can’t improve.

I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.

Hopefully before I’m done, I can be on an Olympic team.

If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?

I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.