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

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

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.

You will find that women who are pregnant often don't want to be and women who aren't desperately envy those who are. Labour wards are always full of very punitive people.

memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.

Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning.

Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.