All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal.

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.