If You're Looking For Monogamy, You'd Better

People In New Orleans Really Care About Food, Care About It Passionately, Can Spend Hours Arguing Over Whether Antoine's Is Better Than Galatoire's Or The Other Way Around ... In New Orleans, There Is Basically Nothing To Do But Eat And Then Argue About It.

So Many Of The Conscious And Unconscious Ways Men And Women Treat Each Other Have To Do With Romantic And Sexual Fantasies That Are Deeply Ingrained, Not Just In Society But In Literature. The Women's Movement May Manage To Clean Up The Mess In Society, But I Don't Know Whether It Can Ever Clean Up The Mess In Our Minds.

The Only Way To Learn Is To Keep Doing Something New, And, If You're Lucky, Learning With People Who Really Know How To Do It.

I Am A Writer And A Feminist, And The Two Seem To Be Constantly In Conflict.... Ever Since I Became Loosely Involved With It, It Has Seemed To Me One Of The Recurring Ironies Of This Movement That There Is No Way To Tell The Truth About It Without, In Some Small Way, Seeming To Hurt It.

You Always Think That A Bolt Of Lightning Is Going To Strike And Your Parents Will Magically Change Into The People You Wish They Were, Or Back Into The People They Used To Be.