Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches the television.

Lifelong monogamy is a maniacal idea.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

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.

Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.