Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.

Few of those maladies with which your sex are visited at such a period should be dangers - they are however all troublesome & call for a husbands care & a husbands fondness.

It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned