The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.

The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.

There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.

Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is heavily handicapped, though her situation is beginning to change.

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

One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.