I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis.
I was not much good as a waitress.
You always regret upsetting people needlessly.
What interests me is the idea that classics is actually quite democratic. It isn't only the toff, upper-class subject it's often thought to be. Every generation enjoys rediscovering it.
What politicians do is they never get the rhetoric wrong, and the price they pay is they don't speak the truth as they see it. Now, I will speak truth as I see it, and sometimes I don't get the rhetoric right. I think that's a fair trade-off.
When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice.
