I remember my childhood as a long wish to be elsewhere.

I always found in myself a dread of west and a love of east.

اضطرب عهداً طويلاً بين الرغبة فى الحب والخوف من المرأة ، والتشوق إلى النساء والحقد عليهن.

Sometimes women scare the hell out of me.

And yet women-good women — frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.

كنت فريسة الخوف، الخوف من هذا الافق الباعث على الرجاء. وكنت أحس بروحي تنطوي على ذاتها ، أحسها تتقهقر، وكنت مرعوبا من فكرة أنه لم يبق لها أمام هذا الحصار سوى الهرب .

To go from a familiar thing, however undesirable, into the unknown, is always a matter for apprehension, and I suppose that is why so many people are afraid to die.

The fear of being alone, or of being unloved, had caused women of all races to passively accept sexism and sexist oppression.

I wandered all these years among A world of women, seeking you.

Among others, there were two pretty women alone, that walked a great while, which being discovered by some idle gentlemen, they would needs take them up; but to see the poor ladies how they were put to it to run from them, and they after them, and sometimes the ladies put themselves along with other company, then the other drew back; at last, the last did get off out of the house, and took boat and away. I was troubled to see them abused so; and could have found in my heart, as little desire of fighting as I have, to have protected the ladies.

She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.

The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.

Very thin ladies, any age, with hand sewing on them, have always frightened me, beginning with a rich great-aunt and her underwear embroidered by nuns. The more bones that show on women the more inferior I feel.

Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.