Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.
Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice.
The price of clinging to the enemy [a man] is your life. To enter into a relationship with a man who has divested himself as completely and publicly from the male role as much as possible would still be a risk. But to relate to a man who has done any less is suicide. . . . I, personally, have taken the position that I will not appear with any man publicly, where it could possibly be interpreted that we were friends.
I'm enormously less interested in whom you sleep with than I am in with whom you're prepared to die.
Love is the victim's response to the rapist.
I propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women.
Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice.
I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.
When you are born, your work is placed in your heart.
The world has changed, and it's almost been 11 years. I have 975 employees. I have six restaurants. We haven't opened any new ones in almost three years.
Success is the most convincing talker in the world.