Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.

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

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

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

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.