Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.