I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!

We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.

She was able to feel active creation going on around her in the rocks and hills, where the mystery of lust took place; and in herself, where all was yet only the night of senses and wild dreams, the work of passion going on.

Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.

Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in.

Anyone would think a thin stick like me, weak and miserable, would go down with everything: do you think I get more than my old cough every winter? I bet I live till ninety, with all my aches and pains. To think that's fifty more years of the Great-I-Am.