"Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence."

"You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven."

"She was a very good-looking woman, and extremely intelligent. But she wasn’t really very female; she had too much of a male intelligence."

"Even if vegetarian dishes are less palatable than meat-based dishes, and it is not clear that they are, we have to weigh up humans' loss of certain pleasures of the palate against what the animals we …"

"The most important thing about marriage is that the man must not let the woman feel downtrodden simply because she is a woman and he is a man."