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

The most highly prized curve of all is that of the bosom.

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.

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

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

Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them.