Quotes from Caroline Bird

Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.

A liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job.

Sexism is judging people by their sex where sex doesn't matter.

Of all the forms in which ideas are disseminated, the college professor lecturing his class is the slowest and the most expensive. You don't have to go to college to learn about the great ideas of Western man. If you want to learn about Milton, or Camus, or even Margaret Mead, you can find them. In paperback. In the library.

You don't grow old, you become old by not growing.