Tina Brown

Why wouldn't I?

I think everybody would.

You know, she had much better taste in clothes than I did.

Why do you think you brought these things up?

I mean, what do you think?

Because I think, look, again, I mean, I'm afraid, I hate to say it, but I think it's the sort of the sexist way of looking at women.

I don't really know.

I think it's the sort of

condescending myth that makes men feel better sometimes because we're very threatening.

And therefore, my success had to be wrapped around with a kind of somewhat belittling

sort of rocket imagery.

I have to say that what used to amuse me really is that when I got awards as an editor, the citations were always so much more silly than those citations that men would get.

It would be like,

Cheney Brown is the buzzy, you know, irreverent editor.

It's like, excuse me, I just published a 30,000-word piece about, you know, an El Salvador atrocity, you know.

And I'm still like the buzzy, like as if I'm some kind of a, you know, can-can dancer or something, you know.

But I've sort of got used to that now.

You hate that word.

I've seen you in your writing say that you just hate that word buzzy.

It's a silly word.