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

If you wake up in the morning with a great sense of the things that have to be done in the day in order to get through to the next day, you lose the sense of the day as any kind of end in itself.

one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of infidelity.

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

Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.

Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.

When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't hate men, she likes to wear make-up and she enjoys a laugh. In which she is no different from many an early feminist.