The fact that 98 percent of women in [the U.S.] who are sexually experienced say they use birth control doesn't make sex any less sacred. It just means that they're getting to make choices about their lives.

In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.

Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent reaction, contradiction, and teasing, the refusal to answer questions but the love of putting them, and all the strong spices of human relationship which bore a relation to black pepper, paprika, soybean sauce, ketchup and red peppers.

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.