Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.

French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisan intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.

Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.