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?

To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation.

In love there is no status quo.

Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.

The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.