Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
When I started at XCRF in 1960, Mexico was the most lenient country in the world when it came to radio.
Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.
Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped.
Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.
I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.
When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?
Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it.
What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.
His sisters -- my aunts -- did not go to school at all, just like millions of girls in my country. Education had been a great gift for him. He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan's problems. Ignorance allowed politicians t...
The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave, or what its creations should look like, but to describe those creations in all their messy glory and try to figure out what they can teac...
Jesus beckons me to follow him to that place of weakness where I risk the vulnerability of a child so that I might know how strong my Father is and how much he loves me. But truth be told, I would rather be an adult. I'd rather be in a place where I ...
Ringo: It's the Circle Club. Paul: [reads aloud the invite] "The management of the Circle Club takes pleasure in requesting the company of Mr. Richard Starkey - that's you - to their gaming rooms. Chemin de Fer, Baccarat, and Champagne buffet". Ringo...
Caesar was a serial seducer of married women.
It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
People's attitude seems to be that if you don't have a television, you're not connected to reality - somehow you're not in reality. It's quite interesting, because I suspect that possibly it's the reverse.
Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
I grew up in a rough environment. You want to be strong and have your presence felt out there. That attitude reflects how people see you.
By making a comeback, I'm changing the attitude of people toward me. If I'd known that people would react so enthusiastically, I'd have done it years ago.
You have to have an attitude that nothing's gonna stop me. I think that's just my New York kind of attitude - survival of the fittest.
