The joy of a party is the newness of people to each other, renewed strikingness of humanity. They love each other, to distraction. Really to distraction. Before they fall into conversation and separate. ... The strangeness, and the hopes aroused by strangeness, are illusions. Mirages arising wherever people gather expectantly together.

A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

Every thought vibrates through the universe.

You think Christianity is favorable to women? On the contrary. It is the Christian countries that have produced the prostitute and the most vile estimations of women in the world.

... men want recognition of their work, to help them believe in themselves.

It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .