Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.

Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

All oppression creates a state of war.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

I like everyone who tries to show that madness is, in large part, conditioned by society and particularly by the family, and therefore, strongly affects women.

--There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.