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?

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

In love there is no status quo.

doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.

What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.

Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.

Novels are longer than life.