"Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us."

"You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons."

"What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open."

"The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own lives."

"On my 70th birthday I was going to get a tramp stamp."