When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?

I feel even less patience with transsexuals.

To believe that one, or even three, mates can supply all the things one needs from one's friends is as stupid as believing married couples must do everything together.

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.

These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty; they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.

Make no mistake, most women are well aware that they've never had it so good; when they enter a spa or salon, it is purely a hair/nails thing, a prelude to an evening of guilt-free fun.

Transsexualism is, basically, just another, more drastic twist on the male menopause.