Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted father….

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!.

The moment there is imagination there is myth.

Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in s….

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle..

There is such a thing as seduction, and it needs encouragement rather than discouragement in our puritanical Anglo-American world..

Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium..

Men chase by night those they will not greet by day..

Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest..

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore ….

I am a very reclusive, private person..

I guess I'm just a natural warrior..

In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repr….

Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion ….

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines..

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for mo….

In 1974 I nearly got into a fistfight with some early academic feminists in a restaurant when I casually alluded to a hormonal element in sex differe….

I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right like it or ….

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slo….

Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart of every marriage….

All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the lower class….