I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

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

Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that they manipulate the world by pussy power and gentle cajolery are fools. It is slavery to have to adopt such tactics.

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

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.

Pigs may like honey, but that doesn't stop it being sweet.