Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.