Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes.

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.