What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within the norms of the dominant class.

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.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."

Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.