To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.

If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.

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

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.

Buying is profound pleasure.