"The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abort…"

"Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism.... Worst of all, prostitution reinforces all the old dumb clichés …"

"Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index."

"I got through the sexual side of my first marriage - for six years! - by pretending that my husband was my friend Pet…"

"Will [Self] loomed over my second marriage, lurked throughout my very enjoyable six months of lesbianism, and has see…"

"Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely su…"

"We may be saddled with Bush and Blair, but you've got Prince Charles (a big friend of the Islamic world, probably bec…"

"Cherie Blair can call herself a feminist all she likes, but any feminist worth her salt would have made a point of ha…"

"The only kind of socialist to be is a Stalinist, and the only kind of woman to be is a Bitch."

"A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be with and the most plea…"