Who said “Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man…”?

“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.”

“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”

“He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.”

“People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.”

“The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him.”

“During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.”

“Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.”

“Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty -- as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.”

“American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.”

“Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.”

“The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.”