A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.
Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
I think that testosterone is a rare poison.
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.
Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.
Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.
Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.
We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood.
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.
Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.
Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.
Act quickly, think slowly.
Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
There is no such thing as security. There never has been.
Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.
