Germaine Greer on clever jabs

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still, and absorbed.

The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Winston Churchill1874–1965

Thus far, the reputed idiot Bush has graduated from Yale and Harvard, made a stack of cash in the oil industry, become the first consecutive-term governor of Texas, defeated a dual-term VP for the presidency, and led his party to [November 5th’s] extraordinary triumphs. Let his opponents keep calling him stupid; if they do, within five years Bush will be King of England, the Pope, and world Formula One motor racing champion.

Tim Blairborn 1965

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I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Mark Twain1835–1910