History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.

Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.

In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

Every revolution has its counter-revolution.

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat a lot of raw carrots.

Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?

The more hooks an idea has, the better it will cling to memory.

Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.

For knowledge is not given as gift...but through study...The free mind, not afraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

My intention was never to write a "trans novel" - which is perhaps an effective strategy for writing a trans novel.