If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.

Bisexuality is our best hope of escape from the animosities and false polarities of the current sex wars.

Women are being told "you are future leaders." Meanwhile, we are more than our jobs. One reason Sex and the City was such an enormous hit is that it expressed something that feminism won't admit: we don't know what we want. We don't know if we want children or not.

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.