“My friends in the nouveau paganism camp accuse me of quaintness: Bible thumpers are straw men, so why bother?…My answer is that straw men, once set aflame with zeal, can be quite dangerous, and that the gap between New Age irrationalism and Christian fundamentalism is not nearly so wide as we might wish to believe.”

“We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw.”

“What men build, in the name of security, is built of straw.”

“We have a saying: “A single straw of a broom can be broken easily, but the straws together are not easily broken.” So here are three things African women can do to support their sisters and daughters:”

“The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.”

“No wild beasts are so dangerous to men as Christians are to one another.”

“Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings,
But the immensest empire is too narrow for two kings.”

“An order was given to set up a pillar of pagan heads on the … hill between which and our camp the battle had been fought. (…) About 1000 men, women and children were made prisoner; there as also great slaughter, and a pillar of heads was raised.”

“Everything is so exciting at the moment. My school friends back home in Canterbury can't quite believe what I am up to. I can't wait for everyone to hear my new album”

“A hint of ‘I’m so pleased that you strong, handsome, stalwart men are going to stand between my flower-like beauty and danger,’ wouldn’t hurt either”