Bertrand Russell — "The most important thing for a child is to feel loved."

"Many people would sooner die than think. In fact, they do."

"The deeply irrational attitude of each sex toward women may be seen in novels, particularly in bad novels. In bad novels by men, there is the woman with whom the author is in love, who usually possess…"

"Among those who are rich enough to choose their way of life, the particular brand of unendurable boredom from which they suffer is due, paradoxical as this may seem, to their fear of boredom."

"Of all the forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."

"Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution."