My knees have always been ugly.

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their middle-class status. This is the real meaning of saving up to get married. The young couple struggles to set up an image of comfortable life which they will be forced to live up to in the years that follow.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.

Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.

I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.