"Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention."

"Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work."

"The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience."

"Beauty is our weapon against nature by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature."

"If you go too soon, you can come unstuck with 50m left when the guys are going past you."

"When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased."

"Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology."

"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life."