If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.

As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.

Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.

Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect; you are barely conscious of it while you have it.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine