Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

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.

Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.

Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation and pleasure in the company of their 'inferiors'? They would need to shed their desperate need to admire a man, and accept the gentler role of loving him. A learned woman cannot castrate a truck-driver like she can her intellectual rival, because he has no exaggerated respect for her bookish capacities. The alternative to conventional education is not stupidity, and many a clever girl needs the corrective of a humbler soul's genuine wisdom.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says 'What would I do without you?' is already destroyed.

We still make love to organs and not people; that so far from realising that people are never more idiosyncratic, never more totally there when they make love, we re never more incommunicative, never more alone.

Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.