But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.

Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.

Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.

The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.

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

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.