A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.

Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.

The Republicans think they have a corner on morality.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.