The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

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.

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.

…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.

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

Live with no time-out.

What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within the norms of the dominant class.