“A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches”

“When a man wears his pants that tight, they tend to pinch his balls, and that tends to pinch his temper.”

“If everybody spent enough time worrying about their own goddamn selves, no one would have to worry about anyone else.”

“And let me tell you something else, my friend," she said in the precise enunciation of a trained nurse talking to a worried patient. "It is all very easy for a man to talk about living in the present. Much more so than for a woman, who is liable to get knocked up higher than a kite every time the man enjoys himself in the present. Thats one thing I dont have to worry about, thank God. But there are a lot of others: such as what I am going to do when my husband kicks me out and then my lover throws me over when he has to support me, and me not being trained for anything but to be somebody's wife and having to do all my politicking and achieving and gain what little success I can by getting behind some stupid man and pushing him.”

“Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”

“Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.”