“When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.”

“Indeed, the exigencies of female tenderness are such as virtually to guarantee the man's absolution by the woman--not on her terms, but on his. Moreover, the man's confession of fear or failure tends to mystify the woman's understanding not only of the power dimensions of the relationship between herself and this particular man, but of the relations of power between men and women in general.”

“Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side and his nobler instincts - and another woman to help him forget them.”

“No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.”

“Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”

“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”