“Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.”

“Every man would like to possess all the women in the world, but a woman only wants the man she loves and to whom she is faithful.”

“I’d gotten involved in the Women’s Movement, and there were a lot of songs on the radio about being weak and being dainty and all those sort of things. All the women in my family, they were strong women. They worked. They lived through the Depression and a world war, and they were just strong women. I certainly didn’t see myself as being dainty.”

“She was so tired of being strong.”

“Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.”

“Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.”

“What can be more discouraging to a man than to doubt if his soul be material, like a stone or a reptile, and subject to corruption like the vilest creatures? And does it not prove much more strength of mind and grandeur to be able to conceive the idea of a Being superior to all other beings, by whom and for whom all things were made; of a Being absolutely perfect and pure, without beginning or end, of whom our soul is the image, and of whom, if I may say so, it is a part, because it is spiritual and immortal?”

“See, everybody looks at the world from his own point of view. I call it the ground state of the resting mind. And your brain does the same thing, left alone it returns to and thinks about what it’s really interested in.”

“I adore the concept of being in love with one guy and spending the rest of my life with him.”

“I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.”