The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.

But I must admit I didn´t like that idea; do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat - that had been the nightmare of my adolescence. If it meant going back to that, if would be just as well to turn on the gas at once. But I suppose everyone thinks of things like that: let´s turn on the gas at once. And you don´t turn it on.

No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.