If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.

Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

What makes a Man love Death, Fanny? Is it because he hopes to avert his own by watchin' the Deaths of others? Doth he hope to devour Death by devourin' Executions with his Eyes? I'll ne'er understand it, if I live to be eight hundred Years. The Human Beast is more Beast than Human, 'tis true.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.