Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.

Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.