If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

I am a very reclusive, private person.

Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.

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

Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.

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

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.