Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?

Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.

albinos aren't reproached for having pink eyes and whitish hair, why should they hold it again me for being a lesbian? It's a question of nature: my queerness isn't a vice, isn't 'deliberate,' and harms no one.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.