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" The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair. "

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" In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education. "

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" You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered. "

" My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them. "

" My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family. "

" A woman simply is, but a man must become. "

" The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants. "

" Rule of art: Cant kills creativity! "

" Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience. "

" The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me. "

" Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women. "

" As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear. "

" If colleges and universities are really concerned about women's rights, then they must adjust to a far more flexible structure to allow young women students to take leaves of absence if they want to have children early. "

" Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them. "

" My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969. "

" Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys. "

" I guess I'm just a natural warrior. "

" Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure. "

" Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops. "

" Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting. "

" The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens. "

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" 'Mad Men' doesn't capture one single thing about the decor, costumes, or sexual interaction. It is a total projection of contemporary snarky attitudes into the past. "

" I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care. "

" Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map. "

" Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began. "

" Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader. "

" Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention. "

" Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating. "

" Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars. "

" Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist. "

" Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents. "