The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.
“As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.”
“You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture.”