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

Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt.

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.

I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat.

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.

There is more sexism in a year's worth of movies than actually exists in a woman's entire lifetime.

We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.