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?

Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.

If only art were as rare as good taste.

We are nearly all composed of such a complex mixture of human qualities that in each one of us reside both masculine and feminine principles: what man is without any female attribute and what woman never demonstrates any masculine characteristics?

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

Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution.

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.