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

Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

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

It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man.

Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilisation and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.