Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
There is no such thing as security. There never has been.
Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
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.
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.
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.
I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. 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.
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.