How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.

To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.

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

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

I didn’t and don’t want to be a ‘feminine’ version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves.

....thinking you are attacking society when you condemn or ravage the hypothetical Nice Girl Next Door is the exact equivalent of thinking that stealing from the local supermarket makes you a Communist.

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