Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it. |
Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilization and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin. |
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. |
Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more. |
Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities . To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it. |
Our whole lives are lived in a tangle of telling, not telling, misleading, allowing to know, concealing, eavesdropping and collusion. When Washington said he could not tell a lie, his father must have answered, 'You had better learn." |
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. |
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism. |
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. |
Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution |
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed |
Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life. |
She became the character she was playing in an Ibsen play; she'd stalk around with grey hair. She was also the meanest woman in the world. |
The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not. |
The essence of pleasure is spontaneity |