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.

Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.

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

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.

The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

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