It's only in silence that you can judge of your relationship to a person.
Marriage is not an institution, it is an intuition.
It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .
If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.
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.
In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of being at once bound and free. The garden breeds a longing for the wild; the wild a homesickness for the garden.