Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.

I had a glorious father, I had no father at all.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. ... The first thing a woman does when she gets a little money into her hands is to hire some other poor wretch to do her housework.

every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

When those of our army whose voices are likely to coo tell us that the day of sex antagonism is over and that henceforth we only have to advance hand in hand with the male, I do not believe it.

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