Favorite quotes

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

I’m just a person trapped inside a woman’s body.

Don’t accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Men and women, women and men; it will never work.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.

She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking about girls; she wasn’t a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a sneaky bitch; she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women.