At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and "handsome is as handsome does," she was emerging as the central emblem of western art.

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

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.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.