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Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.

I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style - her toughness and rigor.

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

It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.

I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.

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

I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.

Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.

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.

I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.

As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal.

I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.

I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.

I remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen.

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.

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

Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.

I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.

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

No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.

I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.