A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.
I look like Julian Clary on steroids.
I have big friends who won't go swimming because they're too embarrassed about it. I feel that's such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing.
There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.
I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.
I never think, 'Where am I going to be in a year's time?' That seems to be a sure way of missing the fact that you might be quite happy now.
I took my husband to the hospital yesterday to have 17 stitches out - that'll teach him to buy me a sewing kit for my birthday.
I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.
Ninety percent of metabolic oxygen comes from breathing. Ten percent comes from food.
Extremist groups like People for the American Way attack Christians who run for public office as a threat to the 'separation of church and state,' though they never specify why conservatives are any more of a threat than churchmen and church women on the Left who have led religiously inspired causes for decades.
And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.