Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

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 claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.