The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

Security is the denial of life

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.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.