Every time I start on a new book, I am a beginner again. I doubt myself, I grow discouraged, all the work accomplished in the past is as though it never was, my first drafts are so shapeless that it seems impossible to go on with the attempt at all, right up until the moment - always imperceptible, there, too, there is a break - when it is has become impossible not to finish it.

Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.

Buying is profound pleasure.

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

Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Only a woman can write what it is to feel as a woman, to be a woman.