domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.

... to lovers innumerable things do not matter.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.

Human beings are mercifully so constituted as to be able to conceal from themselves what they intend to do until they are well into the doing of it.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.