One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.

You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.

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

If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.

In 1949, I believed that social progress, the triumph of the proletariat, socialism would lead to the emancipation of women. But I saw that nothing came of it: first of all, that socialism was not achieved anywhere, and that in certain countries which called themselves socialist, the situation of women was no better than it was in so-called capitalist countries.