It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.

[Warfare is] maleness in its absurdest extremes. Here is to be studied the whole gamut of basic masculinity, from the initial instinct of combat, through every form of glorious ostentation, with the loudest accompaniment of noise.

And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.

Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.

Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fools - but who’s to blame for that? We invent all those idiotic hats of theirs, and design their crazy fashions, and what’s more, if a woman is courageous enough to wear common-sense clothes - and shoes - which of us wants to dance with her?

It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.

But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.