Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

My knees have always been ugly.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges.

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?

The most highly prized curve of all is that of the bosom.