The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.

The Sahara was a spectacle as alive as the sea. The tints of the dunes changed according to the time of day and the angle of the light: golden as apricots from far off, when we drove close to them they turned to freshly made butter; behind us they grew pink; from sand to rock, the materials of which the desert was made varied as much as its tints.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.

Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.