The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

I think that testosterone is a rare poison.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.

Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood.

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.

Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves when that right is pre empted it is called brain washing.