The woman wins who calls herself beautiful, and challenges the world to change to fit her vision.

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

Our culture is a capitalist society right? And so in order to always have the idea of the good life, means something you pay money for. Think of being outside of what you have and own, it always has to be receiving a difference.

...When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii and hand over our power, we are not acting like true Americans. Indeed, at those moments we are giving up our citizenship.

When a leader has deployed a private army, that is one definition of a police state. Another is when the president, or a leader, has his own treasury.

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

Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.