My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they are behind a wheel that they most fear the control of women and children.

Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.

Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.

One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't hate men, she likes to wear make-up and she enjoys a laugh. In which she is no different from many an early feminist.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine