The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.

The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

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

Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.

Act quickly, think slowly.

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?