In that vigorous and healthy society they would have spurned thee under foot disdainfully.
Purity, mysticism, melancholy--three words unknown to thee, three new maladies brought into our life by the Christ!...

For me, I look on woman in the old world manner, like a fair slave, made only for our pleasures.

Christianity, in my eyes, has done nothing to rehabilitate her....

To say the truth, I cannot conceive for what reason there should be this desire in woman to be looked on as on a level with men....

I have made some love-verses in my time, or at least something that aspired to pass for such ...