If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you sick, you've got a long way to go, baby.

I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.

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

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says 'What would I do without you?' is already destroyed.

Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back; lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The bitter animosity and obscenity of divorce is unknown where individuals have not become Siamese twins.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.