The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

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.

All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.