Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in himself at the expense of his sense of reality, to be his closest and effectively his only friend, to encourage him to rejectthe consensus of opinionand find reassurance only in her arms is binding her mate to her with hoops of steel that will strangle them both.

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

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been encouraged to learn methods of thought and develop a disciplined mind. As long as education remains largely induction ignorance will retain these advantages over learning and it is time that women impudently put them to work.