"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their courage. I like their completeness. I like their absence of humbug."

"Pleasure has no room for the past; but memory is often a source of pain."

"I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by the male view of life. I am nauseated by the male fiction."

"I am in a state of glory; and calm; and something like wisdom."

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."