The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.

There have been countless women in my life. They have participated in my triumphs and suffered with me in my moments of disappointment. They have inspired me to attainment and they have balked me; they have caused me joy and they have heaped misery upon me; they have been faithful to the utmost and they have been faithless; they have praised and loved me and they have hated and denounced me. Always, a woman has swayed me — sometimes many have demanded my attention at the same moment.

Every woman I knew secretly longed to have many lovers but she stopped herself for so many reasons. I had the capacity to love many at a time and for this had been called shallow and wayward and a good-time girl...

Women found in me a man who could keep a love secret.

I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.

I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.

A very special thanks to all the women that have cum in and out of my life.

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.

I have grown to love secrecy.

I love beautiful women, and beautiful women love me. It has to be both ways.

I have loved enough women to know how to paint.
If I had loved fewer, I would be an illustrator; if I had loved more, I would be a poet.

I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never
stopped me from loving you.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.