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

Given masculine norms, it is clear that women are more likely to be considered crazy - I'm not saying to be crazy.

Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is, exists only by being spent and there is a good case for showing that airplanes, machines, the telephone, and the radio do not make men of today happier than those of former times.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.