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.

There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.

Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

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.

The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.

Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.