Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.

- Caryl Rivers

[On the Barbie doll:] Her values, while somewhat Yuppified, are not so bad. Look at GI Joe. His only wardrobe is fatigues, he spends all his time try…

- Caryl Rivers

Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.

- Caryl Rivers

Technology has allowed the world of men in our society to separate itself from the sight and the sounds of killing; from the horror of it, but not fr…

- Caryl Rivers

I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.

- Caryl Rivers

Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.

- Caryl Rivers

What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age.

- Caryl Rivers

Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite the rules. You're…

- Caryl Rivers

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

- Caryl Rivers