It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.

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.

The renewed use of lobotomy today is particularly applicable to women: Because they do routine things, it is possible to take away their spirit of revolt, of debate, of criticism, and still leave them perfectly capable of making stews or washing dishes. It's terrible, this tendency to consider women something dangerous to society.

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.