Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

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.

People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact.

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.