Love has made me a different person. It has made the world beautiful.

Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.

Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.

I now knew that all of us were prostitutes who sold themselves at varying prices, and that an expensive prostitute was better than a cheap one.

Who said to kill does not require gentleness?

Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.