My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.

That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.