Trinidadians love speaking their own English; it's full of poetic forms and can be playful and lyrical and comical. Trinidadians are verbal acrobats, and I love being on the island just to hear the people speak.

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• Monique Roffey:

  While I am most at home in London, I cannot really label myself as either British or Trinidadian. I

• Monique Roffey:

  'The White Woman on the Green Bicycle' is a love story mapped onto an unfolding political tragedy:

• Monique Roffey:

  Long-term heterosexual monogamy is still the dominant model: men and women still want to pair for a

• Monique Roffey:

  I made myself unhappy measuring my love against a given norm. The truth is, we make ourselves happy

• Monique Roffey:

  New Year's Eve is not about having a big party for me. It's a time of reflection, and I often go on

• Monique Roffey:

  The person I love most is the Dalai Lama. China destroyed his country, yet he says that it's impera

• Monique Roffey:

  I talk to myself. It's my worst habit. I often muse aloud, or, when people drive me crazy, I curse

• Monique Roffey:

  All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre:

• Christina Hoff Sommers:

  We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and co

• Christina Hoff Sommers:

  I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group.