“Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks were anything but masks.”

“As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.”

“War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.”

“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.”

“It's a terrible thing to be alone — yes it is — it is — but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath — as terrible as you like — but a mask.”

“The trouble with a mask is it never changes”

“We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.”

“I have never been able to understand women composers who do not wish to be called women composers. I understand their argument but it seems so superficial to me. Our strength lies in our identification with women and music.”

“You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.”

“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men — they are far superior and always have been.”