“Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage”
“Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.”
“Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.”
“[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.”
“No other instinct can so satisfy without accomplishing its biological purpose, and no other instinct is so disconnected from its purpose.”
“Women want to find one man to satisfy their many needs while men want many women to satisfy their one need.”