There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

Ineluctably, the insults inflicted in one war call forth new wars of retaliation, which may be waged within months of the original conflict or generations later.

From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.

What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.

The fact is that heterosexual sex for most people is in no way free of the power relations between men and women.

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.