This religion and the Bible require of woman everything, and give her nothing. They ask her support and her love, and repay her with contempt and oppression.

Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been “authorized by the Bible” and riveted and perpetuated by the pulpit.

That she does not crouch today where St Paul tried to bind her, she owes to the men who are grand and brave enough to ignore St Paul, and rise superior to his God.

I do not know the needs of a god or of another world... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one.

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.

You may have some scars from the past but this will fade away in time.

I'd rather not, but if it will help the club, I'll do it. My ankle injury still bothers me sometimes.

Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film.

I think every minute you're in a situation like this, your clock is ticking.

We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.

A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.

The illusion of design is so successful that to this day most Americans (including, significantly, many influential and rich Americans) stubbornly refuse to believe it is an illusion.