Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy.

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

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

Once upon a time, Jack wouldn't have been caught dead in a princess rescue.

I am addicted to love.Love is my beloved drug.

Unconditional Love is the outer expression of Inner Peace.

In wartime, she thought to herself, you don’t call a death murder.

If the wind and rain could play guitar, they would sound a lot like Doc Watson

As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.

Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.

You got a man? That's somethin we will talk about. He's smart enough to have ya, but dumb enough to let ya out.

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.