I believe in permanent revolution.

The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. The joy of the struggle is not hedonism and hilarity, but the sense of purpose, achievement and dignity.

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

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.

It is agreed that little girls should have a different physical education than little boys, but it is not admitted how much of the difference is counseled by the conviction that little girls should not look like little boys.

The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is the reductio ad absurdum of the employee who accepts a lower wage in return for permanence of his employment. But the lowest paid employees can be and are laid off, and so are wives. They have no savings, no skills which they can bargain with elsewhere, and they must bear the stigma of having been sacked.

Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.