The Moment You Give Up Your Principles,

Journalism Is An Extraordinary And Terrible Privilege. Not By Chance, If You Are Aware Of It, Does It Consume You With A Hundred Feelings Of Inadequacy. Not By Chance, When I Find Myself Going Through An Event Or An Important Encounter, Does It Seize Me Like Anguish, A Fear Of Not Having Enough Eyes And Enough Ears And Enough Brains To Look And Listen And Understand Like A Worm Hidden In The Wood Of History.

I Always Introduce Myself As An Encyclopedia Of Defects Which I Do Not Deny. Why Should I? It Took Me A Whole Life To Build Myself As I Am.

I'll Impose Upon You The Same Arrogance That Was Imposed On Me, And On My Mother, My Grandmother, My Grandmother's Mother: All The Way Back To The First Human Born Of Another Human Being, Whether He Liked It Or Not. Probably, If He Or She Had Been Allowed To Choose, He Would Have Been Frightened And Answered: No, I Don't Want To Be Born. But No One Asked Their Opinion, And So They Were Born And Lived And Died After Giving Birth To Another Human Being Who Was Not Asked To Choose, And That One Did Likewise, For Millions Of Years, Right Down To Us.

And Yet, Or Just For This Reason, It's So Fascinating To Be A Woman. It's An Adventure That Takes Such Courage, A Challenge That's Never Boring. You'll Have So Many Things To Engage You If You're Born A Woman. To Begin With, You'll Have To Struggle To Maintain That If God Exists He Might Even Be An Old Woman With White Hair Or A Beautiful Girl. Then You'll Have To Struggle To Explain That It Wasn't Sin That Was Born On The Day When Eve Picked An Apple, What Was Born That Day Was A Splendid Virtue Called Disobedience.

America Is God Equals America Equals Business Equals America Equals God.