You can't imbibe someone's success by f*cking them.

... chastity is not given once and for all like a wedding ring that is put on never to be taken off, but is a garden which each day must be weeded, watered, and trimmed anew, or soon there will be only brambles and wilderness.

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.

Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.

[T]here is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it.

When one culture has the big guns and the other has none, there is a certain predictablity about the outcome.

Anyway everyboy (sorry) knows that what women have done that is really important is not to constitute a great, cheap labor force that you can zip in when you're at war and zip out again afterwards but to Be Mothers, to form the coming generation, to give birth to them, to nurse them, to mop floors for them, to love them, cook for them, clean for them, change their diapers, pick up after them, and mainly sacrifice themselves for them. This is the most important job in the world. That's why they don't pay you for it.