Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

The invisible is only another unexplored country, a brave new world.

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.