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.

My knees have always been ugly.

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.

Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilisation and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin.

Act quickly, think slowly.

The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.