When a man and a woman love one another that is enough. That is marriage. A religious rite is superfluous. And if the man and woman live together without the love, no ceremony in the world can make it a marriage.
I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.
Do you think a man is the only creature with whom one may fall in love?
There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.
I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.
You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.