“When it comes to emotions, women know how to paint with the full set of oils, while men are busy doodling with crayons.”

“For Archie was an expert in dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman.”

“She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons”

“In tombs of gold and lapis lazuliBodies of holy men and women exudeMiraculous oil, odour of violet.But under heavy loads of trampled clayLie bodies of the vampires full of blood;Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet("Oil and Blood")”

“If men only knew, modesty makes women fall in love faster than all the cock-a-doodling in the world.”

“Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.”