When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, thats kind of a dead-end road. So I think its a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society. – K. D. Lang

We have to challenge the whole idea that its acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and dont have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives. – Iain Duncan Smith

Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his own running commentary on the preposterous and bewildering events of the hour: and this, nowadays, is what passes for conversation. – Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver, 1930s