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Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.
Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."
How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable.
I'm not in love. I'm not out of love. I'm just trying to find some version of the truth.
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor
Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.
The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars.
Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.
When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.
The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.
Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.
If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers.
Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
You must leave this world a better place than it would have been if you had not existed.
Political assumptions can remain constant for long periods and then change very quickly.
My kids are good artists, and they do a pretty good version of Dad in their caricatures.
I certainly don't think that it's the job of any journalist to make the presidency work.
Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.
Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.
English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone's time and money.
One thing I want to make clear: You never want to hide from your debts. It doesn't work.
A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.
I don't read "letters" sections of magazines, but I'll read anyone's blog post about me.
Is it OK to admit to being slightly obsessed with the TV programme 'Great British Menu?'
Capitalism, perhaps at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy.
Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.
Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented.
So when Putin goes out to buy a Coke, thirty seconds later it is known in Washington DC.
Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.
Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.
The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number.
Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.
Who needs shows like 'House of Cards' or 'Scandal' when you can simply turn on the news?
I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills.
Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.
It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.
A Trump presidency feels as if we've crawled between the covers of a really crummy book.
When you have a gutless Congress a lawless president can do pretty much what he chooses.
What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.
A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend.
Always beware your moment of triumphalism: such emotions are a poor steer on the future.
In some ways, being No. 2 in the ratings is a real shot in the arm, a kick in the pants.
There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.
Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie.