If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness of male drive the aggressive society will run to its lunatic extremes at ever-escalating speed. Who will safeguard the despised animal faculties of compassion, empathy, innocence and sensuality?

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother

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

A garden is the best alternative therapy.

Sex for many has become a sorry business, a mechanical release involving neither discovery nor triumph, stressing human isolation more dishearte-ingly than ever before.

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.