Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is very feminine, and by that I mean that women are supposed to be very sensitive to all the sensations of nature, much more so than men, much more contemplative. It's this quality that marks her best works.

I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

Given masculine norms, it is clear that women are more likely to be considered crazy - I'm not saying to be crazy.

Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.