It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.

Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.