We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.
Katha PollittWhile woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing.
Katha PollittIn a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.
Katha Pollitt