Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn't do it and didn't really want to.

funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders in months with resistant patients who hate each other.

My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war.

Old, in America, is not a good thing to be.

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.

In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.

We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.