Wild Words from Wild Women

Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five, and the worst actually began to happen.

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

—Charlotte Whitton, mathematically gifted mayor of Ottawa.

When a man gives his opinion he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch.

The cross is the symbol of torture; I prefer the dollar sign, the symbol of free trade, therefore of a free mind.