Quotes on Women

The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

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

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.