There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.

I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object.

Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.