Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism.... Worst of all, prostitution reinforces all the old dumb clichés about women'...s sexuality; that they are not built to enjoy sex and are little more than walking masturbation aids, things to be DONE TO, things so sensually null and void that they have to be paid to indulge in fornication, that women can be had, bought, as often as not sold from one man to another. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women, for the moral tarring and feathering they give indigenous women who have had the bad luck to live in what they make their humping ground.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things t...o make life easier for men, in fact.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What Mrs. Thatcher did for women was to demonstrate that if a woman had enough desire she could do what she wanted, do anything a ...man could do.... Mrs. Thatcher did not have one traditional feminine cell in her body.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have an...d to hold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth ... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracef...ully.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, o...r just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if... they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. REL...ATIONSHIP.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »