I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam.

The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.

We are permitted to suppose that the relatively small size of the female brain depends in part upon her physical inferiority and in part upon her intellectual inferiority.

There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth.

Private practice and marriage - those twin extinguishers of science.

I saw leaving any situation where I was treated with disrespect as evidence of my courage. I wanted my daughters to learn that lesson of worth from me.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write what we don't know we know."

I don’t know anybody who doesn’t have a fantasy. Everybody must have a fantasy.

Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.

If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.

Without my Savior, I am nothing.

I can be your best friend or your worst enemy. You seem to prefer the latter.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Worn with tights it is not an issue, although there is something deeply unfeminist about not being able to sit down in one comfortably.