“It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.”

“And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.”

“Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fools - but who’s to blame for that? We invent all those idiotic hats of theirs, and design their crazy fashions, and what’s more, if a woman is courageous enough to wear common-sense clothes - and shoes - which of us wants to dance with her?”

“The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.”

“Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.”

“The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.”

“The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.”

“To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.”

“Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power The world must follow you!”

“New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American”

“Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.”