The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.

Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.

Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and "handsome is as handsome does," she was emerging as the central emblem of western art.