If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.

All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.

Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.

I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children.