If you run into trouble doing what's expected, people sympathize with you, while if you try something else and flop everyone says, You see?
Katha PollittFor many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.
Katha PollittI'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no intelligent design to the universe. Where I become interested and wake up is about the temporal power of religion, things like prayer in schools, or Catholic-secular hospital mergers.
Katha PollittWhen it comes to ideas - and religions are, among other things, ideas - there is no right not to be offended. ... In fact, if you need laws ... to protect your faith, maybe your faith is weak.
Katha Pollitt