“So what if you're plain? Anyone can like a beautiful woman or a handsome man. That's easy. But power is the ability to inspire attraction without the obvious.”
“There was nothing so attractive as a powerful, handsome, and self-assured man.”
“Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.”
“Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.”
“Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.”
“A man could settle down and still be inspired," he said. "That's all it is. She's a woman who inspires.”