There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.

Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself... They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.

The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women to be slim. Her lack of flesh negates her. The less of her there is, the less notice he need take of her. The more like a male she appears to be, the safer he feels.

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.