[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine.

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

I want to fall on the floor laughing - imagining Hillary Clinton working well in the Senate with everybody else! Oh, give me a break. I've already joked in print that they would need to build her a private cloakroom on the Mall. This is not a woman who has any ability to deal with the mass of humanity. She is the most arrogant, the most moralistic, the most sermonizing and annoying person on earth.

It's patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman.

Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity.

Madonna's great instinctive intelligence was evident to me from her earliest videos.