Writing On The Wall

February, 1993

Writing on the WallWhy Do women take so long in the rest room? They're creating graffiti. That's what I concluded after numerous trips to women's rooms in a liberal arts building at the University of California at Berkeley, where I was doing postgraduate work. In fact, the most entertaining stuff from my time there was what I found in the bathroom. Armed with my notebook and tape recorder--for when my hand got tired--I began to transcribe what I saw in the campus' most well-read and well-written...