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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world.

Marriage seems to be predicated on protecting a very deep and intimate form of mystery.

That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.

Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because of the conventional conception of womanly purity, has been intimidated from conceding to men a deep insight into her erotic life experiences.