Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.

There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.

Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.

Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.

After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.

As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.

There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.