I'm not worried that tomorrow there will be a battalion outside your Greenwich Village apartment. I'm worried about things like the McCain Liberman bill that would define enemy belligerents so loosely it would include Americans, which is just like Stalin and Hitler and Mussolini.

At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition

From a constitutional point of view George W. Bush passing through the Patriot Act is no worse than Obama renewing it.

Sexiness is no longer defined just as whether we are desirable, but also what we desire. The more liberated women become - economically, politically, and personally - the more erotic we are. Freedom is a lot sexier than dependency.

Historically, when a leader has deployed his own military against civilians, it's never been good. There's never been a time where it's ended well.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.