I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.

I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances.

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?