Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.

If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.

I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.

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.

To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.