What women will say to other women grumbling in their kitchens and complaining and gossiping or what they make clear in their masochism is often the last thing they will say aloud - a man may overhear. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.

I don't think San Francisco needs defending. I never meet anyone who doesn't love the place, Americans or others.

None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.

for real pleasure a pleasure resort should have no one in it but its legitimate inhabitants, oneself, and perhaps one's friends.

The white man has settled like a locust over Africa, and, like the locusts in early morning, cannot take flight for the heaviness of the dew on their wings. But the dew that weights the white man is the money that he makes from our labor.