On The Whole, I Prefer Not To

Margaret Atwood, The Canadian Novelist, Once Asked A Group Of Women At A University Why They Felt Threatened By Men. The Women Said They Were Afraid Of Being Beaten, Raped, Or Killed By Men. She Then Asked A Group Of Men Why They Felt Threatened By Women. They Said They Were Afraid Women Would Laugh At Them.

I Think Provincialism Is An Endemic Characteristic With Mankind, I Think Everybody Everywhere Is Provincial, But It Is Particularly Striking With Texans, And We Tend To Be Very Texcentric.

Although A Life-long Fashion Dropout, I Have Absorbed Enough By Reading Harper's Bazaar While Waiting At The Dentist's To Have Grasped That The Purpose Of Fashion Is To Make A Statement. My Own Modest Statement, Discerned By True Cognoscenti, Is, "woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked.

I Believe In Practicing Prudence At Least Once Every Two Or Three Years.

The United States Of America Is Still Run By Its Citizens. The Government Works For Us. Rank Imperialism And Warmongering Are Not American Traditions Or Values. We Do Not Need To Dominate The World. We Want And Need To Work With Other Nations. We Want To Find Solutions Other Than Killing People. Not In Our Name, Not With Our Money, Not With Our Children's Blood.