To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

It's only arrogance if you're wrong.

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.

The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.

I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.

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.