Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.

Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.

No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost something precious, but have gained, immeasurably, by the passing of the old order.