Misanthropes Have Some Admirable If Paradoxical Virtues.

Affirmative Action Was Designed Originally For "women And Other Minorities" But The Phrase Has Become Just Another Tortured Euphemism. Female Conscientiousness And Eagerness To Please Have Always Made Women Good Students And Natural Test Takers. Jews Have Gloried In Scholarship Throughout The Ages, And Asians Of Both Sexes Score So High On Sats And Iq Tests That They Regard Affirmative Action As An Impediment. Affirmative Action Really Means Favoritism For Blacks For The Sake Of Racial Peace, But The Favor Is Pure Chimera, And So, Increasingly, Is The Peace.

Real Feminism Is Spinsterhood. It's Time America Admitted That Old Maids Give All Women A Good Name.

I Cherish The Review-as-literature; As Lapidary Journalism In The Eighteenth-century Mode, The Last Hard Sparkling Diamond In Theessayists's Tarnished Crown. To Me, Writing A Good Review Is Not Just A Way To Make Extra Money, But A Sacred Duty.

When Women Talk About "privacy" They Mean Abortion Rights, And The Millions Of Words Feminists Have Written About "a Room Of One'sown" Refer To Psychological Space, Rarely To Physical Solitude. For Most Women Being Alone Is Tantamount To Being Deserted.

Updike's Style Is An Exquisite Blend Of Melville And Austen: Reading Him Is Like Cutting Through Whale Blubber With Embroidery Scissors.