Presley sounded like Jayne Mansfield looked - blowsy and loud and low.

There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.

Show me a frigid woman and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

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

A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.

A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

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.