"Fear and ignorance, you will continue, are two mainstays of any and all religions."

"Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other."

"Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these event…"

"A pretty girl ought simply to concern herself with fucking, and never with engendering."

"Cruelty, far from being a vice, is the first sentiment implanted in us by nature."