We must accept our pain Change what we can and laugh at the rest

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

Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex.

I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives. I think it's criminal - child abuse - that they're not told to do this [in school]. Right now it's just sex education and putting condoms on bananas. Girls should be asked to think about what they want in their lives when they're 50, 60 and 70.

Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

Heterosexual love,. is in sync with cosmic forces. Not everyone has the stomach for daily war with nature.