When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown" refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.

Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials

If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.

Episcopalians have always preferred the flying buttress to the pillar of the church.