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.

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

it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.

Live with no time-out.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

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

Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.