Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.

A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they are completely oppressed by men; they take men at their word and believe in the gods that men have made up. The situation of women, their culture, makes them kneel more often before the gods that have been created by men than men themselves do, who know what they've done. To this extent, women will be more fanatical, whether it is for fascism or for totalitarianism.