Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

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

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

immortality is a terrible curse.

A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.